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A Study on the Performance on Productivity of Sugarcane Crop with Different Combination of Tillage Operations


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1 Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, Vaugh Institute of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Allahabad (U.P.), India
2 Department of Renewable Energy Engineering, Vaugh Institute of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Allahabad (U.P.), India
     

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A field experiment was conducted to test the intensification and productivity of sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.) for two consecutive years (2014-15 to 2015-16) at Amroha district of Uttar Pradesh, India. Different sugarcane planter and conservative tillage practices were taken as different variables for experiments. Two irrigation treatment I1 (Pre planting irrigation) and I2 (Post planting irrigation); two tillage treatment T1 (Conventional tillage) and T2 (Rotavator) followed by five planting treatment P0 (Conventional practice), P1 (Disc type sugarcane planter), P2 (Slit type sugarcane planter), P3 (Ridger type sugarcane planter) P4 (Furrower type sugarcane planter) were performed and tested under RBD (Factorial 2 x 5 x 2) with three replications. Pre irrigation treatments showed better results as compared to post irrigation with most promising with conventional method of tillage. Although treatment T7 (I1P3T1) yields with the highest values of bud germinations (50.37 and 51.71%) at 60 DAP, cane girth (9.31 and 9.67 cm), single cane weight (1.72 and 1.96 kg), cane yield (1074.67 and 1235.53 q/h-1). It was concluded that the mechanized planting system requires less labour and is more frugal than the conventional one.

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Sugarcane, Irrigation, Tillage, Cane Yield, Planter.
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Authors

Manish Kumar
Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, Vaugh Institute of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Allahabad (U.P.), India
Ashok Tripathi
Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, Vaugh Institute of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Allahabad (U.P.), India
Prashant M. Dsouza
Department of Renewable Energy Engineering, Vaugh Institute of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Allahabad (U.P.), India
Devesh Kumar
Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, Vaugh Institute of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Allahabad (U.P.), India

Abstract


A field experiment was conducted to test the intensification and productivity of sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.) for two consecutive years (2014-15 to 2015-16) at Amroha district of Uttar Pradesh, India. Different sugarcane planter and conservative tillage practices were taken as different variables for experiments. Two irrigation treatment I1 (Pre planting irrigation) and I2 (Post planting irrigation); two tillage treatment T1 (Conventional tillage) and T2 (Rotavator) followed by five planting treatment P0 (Conventional practice), P1 (Disc type sugarcane planter), P2 (Slit type sugarcane planter), P3 (Ridger type sugarcane planter) P4 (Furrower type sugarcane planter) were performed and tested under RBD (Factorial 2 x 5 x 2) with three replications. Pre irrigation treatments showed better results as compared to post irrigation with most promising with conventional method of tillage. Although treatment T7 (I1P3T1) yields with the highest values of bud germinations (50.37 and 51.71%) at 60 DAP, cane girth (9.31 and 9.67 cm), single cane weight (1.72 and 1.96 kg), cane yield (1074.67 and 1235.53 q/h-1). It was concluded that the mechanized planting system requires less labour and is more frugal than the conventional one.

Keywords


Sugarcane, Irrigation, Tillage, Cane Yield, Planter.

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