QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF SOME AUTUMN SOWN PROMISING SUGARCANE VARIETIES

Abstract

The present study comprised of a field experiment with 11sugarcane promising varieties was conducted to compare their yield and quality in autumn season during 2004-05 & 2005-06. The experiment was laid out in randomized complete block design with 3 repeats having net plot size of 5 x 9.6 m2 . The data revealed that all the varieties gave significantly different yield from one another. The varieties S2002-US-637 and S2002-US-698 gave higher yields of 109 and 105.5 t/ha than that of test varieties CPF-243 and SPF-245 producing yields of 103 and 98 t/ha. So the maximum sugar recovery of 12.99% was recorded in S2002-US-698.