Home

Post harvest management in sugarcane

Submitted by kanchannainwal1 on Thu, 20/08/2009 - 12:08
Posted in

Post harvest management

  • By products such as bagasse as fuel compressed fibre board paper.
  • Molasses in distilleries for manufacture of ethyl alcohol and used as additives of livestock.
  • Press mud is used as manure. Green tops of cane-Angola as green fodder for cattle.
  • Uses of sugarcane include the production of sugar, Falernum, molasses, rum, soda, cachaça (the national spirit of Brazil) and ethanol for fuel.
  • Bagasse used in the mill and electricity, typically sold to the consumer electricity grid.
  • Used as raw material for paper and cardboard.
  • Fiber from Bengal Cane (Saccharum munja or Saccharum bengalense) is used to making mats, screens or baskets etc. in West Bengal. This fiber is also used in Upanayanam, a rite-of-passage ritual in India and therefore is also significant religiously.
0
Your rating: None Average: 3 (1 vote)
  • Login to post comments
  • 5792 reads

Alternative uses of sugarcane

Submitted by snaithani on Wed, 23/09/2009 - 15:31.

Dear Kanchan,

I feel the caption should have been "Alternative uses of Sugarcane" as post harvest management would include practices to be followed to:

  1.  Prevent fall in sugar content after harvesting.
  2.  Management practices for better ratoon crop.

You have covered most of these practices in the section under harvesting.

Sugarcane bagasse is also a very good ingredient for preparing compost for Mushroom cultivation.

Regards,

Sanjay