Enhancement in Sustainable Sugarcane and Sugar Production in U.P. Towards Secure Food and Yawning Production Gaps With Future Strategies

India is the second largest producer of sugarcane (18.18%) and sugar (15.81%) and top most consumer of the sugar in the world. There are varying sugarcane productivities across various sugarcane producing regions of the country with widely varying sugar recoveries of obtained by the sugar factories. Keeping in view the prevailing sugarcane price fixation mechanism, cost of their inputs during the course of sugarcane juice processing and fluctuations in the prices of the sugar. The sugar industry is faced with a reality that sugar, molasses and bagasse can no longer be regarded as final product from a sugar factory. Thus, value additions, diversifications to be vigorously investigated as possible routes to new market and making sugar industry less dependent on a single commodity i.e. sugar. The northern states particularly Uttar Pradesh plays important role in improving national sugarcane productivity is obvious. Now days stagnation in sugarcane crop yield (72.37 t/ha) and sugar recovery (10.61%) in U.P. with decline in the factor productivity have raised a question during green revolution period. In order to maintain crop sustainability, applied researches are being conducted in different disciplines. Crop rotations, integrated nutrient management strategies and green cane harvesting have been resulted to increase irrigation and drainage efficiency, improvement in organic matter, its better effect on soil properties and sugarcane nutrition.