Manual of Cane Growing

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Abstract
As 2000 is the centenary of BSES, it was decided to revise the Manual of Cane Growing as the major activity of that year.  This new edition is a complete revision of the previous Manual (published in 1965), and includes sections on subject matter that was unknown in 1965.  For example, biotechnology and computers were in their infancy, green-cane trash-blanketing was not practiced, and mechanical harvesting had just commenced.  Yield decline and soil compaction were not major issues, and the impact of farming practices on the environment and the long-term sustainability of agriculture were not serious considerations.  All these topics are covered in the new edition, as well as up-to-date information on pest, disease and weed management, nutrition, and plant breeding.

Editors:  Mac Hogarth and Peter Allsopp
Published: 2000
Type: Manual
Description: Hardcover, 430 pages, contains colour illustrations
ISBN:  0949678058

Contents
Foreword
Chapter 1: Australian sugar industry
Chapter 2: Climate and the management of sugarcane
Chapter 3: Environmental management
Chapter 4: the sugarcane plant; Sugar accumulation
Chapter 5: Cane breeding and improvement
Chapter 6: Soil properties in relation to cane growing
Chapter 7: The sugarcane cropping system
Chapter 8: Nutrition of the plant
Chapter 10: Irrigation of sugarcane
Chapter 11: Drainage
Chapter 12: Weed control in sugarcane
Chapter 13: Disease management
Chapter 14: Pest management
Chapter 15: Quarantine
Chapter 16: Harvesting and transport
Chapter 17: Sugar milling
Chapter 18: Sugar quality and what affects it
Chapter 19: Farm business management
Chapter 20: Farm safety
Chapter 21: Organisations

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