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Indian Journal of Economics and Development
Year : 2015, Volume : 11, Issue : 1
First page : ( 227) Last page : ( 232)
Print ISSN : 2277-5412. Online ISSN : 2322-0430.
Article DOI : 10.5958/2322-0430.2015.00024.4

Infusion of single bud chip planting technique for sugarcane propagation

Gill Jasvir Singh1,*, Kaur Gurpreet2
1DES (Agronomy), FASS, Kapurthala

2Assistant Agronomist, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, PAU, Ludhiana-141004

*Email: gilljs@pau.edu

JEL Classification: Q01, Q10, Q16

Online published on 10 March, 2015.

Abstract
Presently sugarcane is grown on 0.84 million hectares in Punjab and according to planners’ area under this sweet crop should be enhanced to squeeze some area from water guzzling paddy, because it is considered as important crop diversification module and second vital agro-industrial crop after cotton. Long waiting period, higher seed cost (‘25000 -‘30000 per ha), delayed payment and arrears by millers to the farmer, etc. are some bottlenecks in spread of sugarcane to newer niches. To overcome the problem of higher seed rate per unit area an idea of single bud chip planting was floated in form of an experiment in which seed rate is reduced by hundred times with ensured equal or higher yield levels with respect to conventional planting. This chipping and chip planting method can curtail seed cost by ‘20000 to ‘25000 per ha that is direct benefit to the farmers.