The Imperial Instituto Fluminense de Cultura (Fluminense Imperial Institute of Agriculture) encouraged debate with a view to eradicating the blight that devastated sugar cane plantations in the State of Bahia. Rural landowners, government officials and men of science participated in the discussions. The article presents the context of the sciences applied to agriculture, especially agricultural...

Cane and Candy are traceable to two Chinese words both pronounced Kan. One word means Cane or pole when Kan finally became cane in English. The other word Kan means sweet. Then there is the Chinese word Dih which means Drops when Kan-Dih became Candy and means Sweet Drops. Sugar crystals would be like sand in size. Candy of the size of drops. While Misri of small stones, the term Kan-Dih entere...

This study investigates the effect of conventional tillage and application of the monoculture of sugar cane on soil health. Variables like density, moisture, texture, consistency limits, and preconsolidation stress were taken as indicators of soil quality. The measurements were made at a 120 × 120 m field cropped with sugar cane under conventional tillage. The objective of this work was to char...

de las Padres. The aspect of this spot is indescribably beautiful. The surrounding hills are clothed in a lovely verdure of flowery luxuriance, and ample fields produce arrow-root, yucas, Indian corn, sugar cane, and all sorts of savoury and refreshing fruit matured under a uniformly clear and serene sky. When it rains in the province, the river Chiri overflows its banks, and spreads out into s...

BACKGROUND More than 50 studies have reported substantial reductions in plasma lipid concentrations in response to 2-40 mg Cuban sugar cane policosanol (SCP) mixtures/d. However, several animal and human trials conducted outside of Cuba that used non-Cuban mixtures have failed to reproduce the efficacy of policosanols observed in earlier studies. OBJECTIVE The objective was to evaluate lipid-...

Punjab is one of the most fertile regions in India, where wheat, rice, sugar cane, fruits and vegetables are grown and it is called the “Granary of India” or “India’s bread-basket”. Rice and wheat are double cropped in Punjab with rice stalks being burned off over millions of acres prior to the planting of wheat. This widespread practice is polluting and wasteful. In Punjab the consumption of f...

VP mills require significantly larger volumes of cane supply, than Open Pan (OP) mills (Tribe 1987). The amalgamation of larger cane supply volumes means greater transport distances; which in turn sees pressure being brought on the infrastructure (zones, roads, bridges etc.) supporting the command areas of these mills. LDAs in the sugar industry occur as a general rule on the periphery of Large...

For a number of years there has been an ever increasing interest in mechanisation on sugar farms and estates. The interest was originally directed towards cultivation and planting. More recently transport methods have changed and the develop. ment in this direction will continue beyond the cane loader in which great interest is being shown at the present time. In those countries where costs of ...