EVALUATION OF DIFFERENT SUGARCANE GENOTYPES UNDER AGRO-CLIMATIC CONDITION OF FAISALABAD

Abstract

A research experiment was conducted at research area of Sugarcane Research Institute, Faisalabad to evaluate the performance of forty seven sugarcane clones against two standard varieties HSF-240 and CPF-247 for different agronomic traits and yield characters during the crop season 2014-15 at preliminary yield trial. The results revealed that 15 clones out of 47 (32%) were selected. In set-I, , 6 out of 14 clones , in set-II, 4 out of 14 clones, in set-III, 4 out of 14 clones, in set-IV, 1 out of 5 clones were selected and promoted to semi-final trial for further study on the basis of good performance. In set-1, Clone S2012-SL-424 gave higher cane yield (73.83 t ha-1) with sugar yield of 9.86 t ha-1. In set-II, the clone S2012-M-799 gave higher cane yield of 86.67 t ha-1 with 11.61 t ha-1 sugar yield. In set-III, the clone S2012-M-1046 gave higher cane yield (97.63 t ha-1) with 12.64 t ha-1 sugar yield. In set-IV, the clone S2011-FD-18 gave higher cane yield of t ha-1 with t ha-1 sugar yield. The remaining 32 clones (68%) out of 47 were rejected due to diseases susceptibility, lodging, pith and poor growth performance.