Harvest your sugarcane on time to get the highest yields and sugar recovery.
Sugarcane is harvested between 10 and 18 months, depending upon your region, the planting time and crop maturity. Harvesting too early or too late will lead to yield losses.
Some points to be assured before harvesting-
- Sugarcane should be harvested only when it is mature. Practical tests to judge maturity are
- General yellowish color of whole crop
- Cessation of growth
- Swelling of eye buds
- Metallic sound of cane
- Breaking of cane at the nodes
- Brix saccharometer reading between 21 and 24.
- Harvesting should be done with sharp cane cutting knife and very close to ground.
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