In Brazil the sugar ethanol industry has had strong growth in the last 10 years, sometimes due to the growing sugar exportation, sometimes due to the alcohol production for automobile fuel and for exportation. Despite the growing mechanization of the raw material harvest (sugar cane), the manual work still persists. The development of this article was based in the application of the OCRA Method...

mills are able to accept chopped cane. In the past three years several locally developed whole stalk harvesters and imported chopper harvesters have come into use in many areas of the South African sugar industry. The Experiment Station therefore conducted time and motion studies during the past two seasons to assess the performance of these harvesters while operating under local field and crop...

In the South African sugar industry during the past sixty years considerable research has taken place in the field, laboratory and glasshouse with regard to the phosphorus requirement of sugarcane. Reference is made to the amounts ofP used by sugarcane and to the economics of fertilization. The value of phosphatic fertilizer for cane production is reviewed using available field experimental dat...

An attempt has been made to assess the status of different cane diseases in the South African sugar industry. Factors taken into account are present incidence, potential for further spread,, estimated losses in yield and possibilities for control. It is shown that diseases are causing significant losses in yield but that the major proportion of present losses, that due to ratoon stunting diseas...

With increasing international competition it is imperative that the South African sugar industry improves cane yields and quality, and curtails production costs. It is thus likely that increasing domestic labour costs will result in the long-run substitution of capital for labour (i.e. increased mechanisation). Given the high cost and indivisible (or lumpy) nature of mechanical inputs, it is im...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the transformation process area developers related sugar industry in Taiwan between 1900s and 1910s using zone change-over for association restricted cane collection.

The Noodsberg Cane Growers’ Association (NCGA) initiated an environmental management system (EMS) in the Midlands North region of the South African sugar industry, based on ISO 14001. A brief description of ISO 14001 is given, outlining the principles behind the system. The course of action taken in the development of the NCGA management system is described. A breakdown of the components of the...

A notable feature of the agricultural policy of the South African Sugar Industry is that much of our plantation practice still derives from the arbitrary ordinance of tradition or custom, casual observation, and so-called experience. Sugar cane cultivation is an occupation requiring, for its success, the utmost precision both in conception and performance; and further that precision necessitate...

Holding up the phreatic surface near by the plant root zone to effective use of water and provide themoisture on the root zone is a usual method, which uses for several decades by researchers. In thisstudy, we investigate the possibility of controlled drainage method in dry and half-dryzone (i.e., theclimate of the center and south of the Khuzestan state) on thecane plant. The results showedtha...