Assessment of using bud chips as an alternative to cane cutting for late planting of sugarcane

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Sugar Crops Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, 12511 Giza, Egypt

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The current study was conducted at El-Mattana Research Station (latitude: 25.25° N, longitude: 32.31° E), Agricultural Research Center, Luxor Governorate, Egypt on a plant-cane in 2020–2021 and its first ratoon in 2021–2022 seasons to determine the benefits of using bud chip technology compared to traditional sugarcane planting using cane cuttings, whether earlier (In March) or late (In May).The findings showed that planting sugarcane in March (as recommended) using cane setts was comparable to employing bud chips technology in terms of cane and sugar yields per hectare as well as the number of millable canes per hectare, as well as stalk length, diameter, and weight. The first ratoon crop and plant cane both displayed the same trend in terms of quality features.When sugarcane was planted late (in May), bud chips produced better yields of canes and sugar per hectare than cane cuttings did in the plant's cane and first ratoon (14.95 and 3.23 tonnes and 10.20 and 2.07 tonnes, respectively). Meanwhile, May's late planting resulted in a significant decline in the values of the examined quality parameters of both the plant and the first crop of rats. Applying the bud chips approach had a comparative economic advantage over the traditional planting of cane cuttings in both early and late sugarcane planting, in terms of planting expenses, gross and net return, as well as benefit-cost ratio.

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