background: the disposal the wastewater sugar extraction to the rivers and environment cause contamination and is considered as a threat to the marine life and the environment. thus, treatment of the wastewater is necessary. investigating the reduction of the pollution load of cane industry with anaerobic sequencing batch biofilm reactor (asbbr) in the laboratory scale is the purpose of this st...

The last comprehensive review of soil compaction within the South African sugar industry was at a SASTA workshop held in 1964. Since then, the use of mechanised infield loading and transport has developed rapidly and there has also been a significant increase in the use of tractors for other field operations such as fertilizer application and weed control. Harvesting and cane extraction during ...

Sugar cane spirits are some of the most popular alcoholic beverages consumed in Cape Verde. The sugar cane spirit industry in Cape Verde is based mainly on archaic practices that operate without supervision and without efficient control of the production process. The objective of this work was to evaluate samples of industrial and alembic sugar cane spirits from Cape Verde and Ceará, Brazil usi...

The South African sugar industry can be regarded as mainly a diffusion industry with 76% of all cane now handled by diffusers. With the conversion from milling to diffusion, concerns were expressed that higher temperatures, imbibition levels and improved extraction in itselfwould result in various processing difficulties. Among these were expected clarification problems associated with the extr...

THE COOPERATIVE Systems model provides an information systems framework for a value chain management approach to the sugar industry. It uses modern computer and communication technologies to integrate data and systems and provide tools across the industry value chain to assist decision making at the individual business level, and to support and implement whole of value chain management strategi...

The Australian sugar industry has been suffering from low world sugar prices over the past decade, increasingly competitive world markets for sugar, and the recent strengthening of the Australian dollar. Keating, Antony, Brennan, and Wegener (2002) suggested that the industry will need to diversify into other forms of value-added products to regain former levels of profitability, since producti...

EVERY sugarcane grower would like the best levels of performance for all traits, such as high cane yield, high sugar content, resistance or tolerance to biotic and abiotic stress, and every other desirable attribute, all combined together into the same variety. In the real world, however, almost all the important crop traits vary continuously and mostly independently, in genetic populations gen...

Results of nine post-emergence herbicide phytotoxicity experiments are reported. The experiments were conducted on medium to heavy soils at Pongola in the northern irrigated part of the industry or on light soils at Shakaskraal on the Natal north coast. Tests were conducted using the recommended rates of herbicide combinations and double these rates, applied directly over the sugarqane foliage ...