Abstract
To study the yield performance and sucrose contents of
different varieties of sugarcane, an experiment was conducted in sandy clay loam field fertilized @ 150-100-100 kg NPK/
ha. The cane varieties BF-162, CP-43/33, Triton, BL-4 and
COJ-64 wereplanted in the pattern of 90 cm apart double row
strips in the second week of September, 1986 and were harvested on 15th November, 1987. The highest cane yield of
161.58 tonnes per hectare was recorded in the case of Triton
which was at par with BL-4 and BF-162 yielding 156.31 and
150.37 tonnes against 130.35 and 130.16 tonnes per hectare for
CP-43 /33 and COJ-64, respectively. The cane varieties COJ64 and CP-43 /33 produced significantly higher sucrose content of 19.59 and 19.29 per cent as against 17.63, 17.41 and
14.96per cent for BL-4, BF-162 and Triton, respectively.
