CHAIRMAN REPORTS ON THE SESSION OF 'WATER MANAGEMENT IN SUGARCANE DEVELOPMENT' DURING ALL INDIA SEMINAR HELD AT KODAI KANAL, TAMIL NADU ON 26-27 MARCH 2008

摘要

A. This paper was considered as a lead paper as it gave a detailed account of the facts that sugarcane is not a water guzzler crop. The data presented by the Author clearly supports that the requirement of irrigation water in sugarcane crop is comparatively low (50 to 100 cm) as compared to the alternate crop rotation of wheat and paddy (93 to 240 cm) in North India. However, in tropical areas, the banana crop requires much higher quantity of water (250 to 311 cm) as compared to sugarcane crop (110 to 150 cm).B. This paper also gives an account of water requirement of sugarcane crop during different phases of its growth both in tropical and subtropical areas.