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Soil incorporation of trash and foliar application of plant growth regulators boosted sugarcane ratoon yield

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: Ratooning practice saves cost on preparatory tillage and planting material and benefits from the residual manure and moisture. However, yields are generally found to be lower than plant crop in the successive years under normal conditions. Usage of trash generated from the plant crop of sugarcane reduced soil compaction and improved the availability of nutrients and moisture. Application of PGRs at various growth stages further mitigates the adverse effects of tiller mortality and poor assimilate accumulation and partitioning towards stalk. In situ decomposition of sugarcane trash (dispersed @ 12 tonne/ha) generated form the plant crop with Pusa compost inoculant (@ 300 g/ tonne of trash) and foliar applications of Ethrel and GA3 at 60, 90, 120 and 150 diammonium phosphate increases tiller numbers during grand growth stage, reduces tiller mortality, increases NMC and ratoon crop yield by about 16.9 tonne/ha.

Source: Indian Farming

Authors: Rama Kant, Pushpa Singh, Archna Suman, Livleen Shukla

Institutions: Indian Institute of Sugarcane Research, Indian Agricultural Research Institute

Language: English

Topic: Sugarcane Cultivation and Processing

Subfield: Plant Science

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Domain: Life Sciences

SDGs: Zero hunger, Life on land, Responsible consumption and production

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W3153826302

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