Re-assessment of land suitability classes for sugar cane
| MSI01P3575 | |
| Ramasamy, S. Jhoty, I. | |
| Re-assessment of land suitability classes for sugar cane | |
| 24th ISSCT Congress, Brisbane, Australia, September 2001 | |
| periodical article | |
| 2001 | |
| Proc. int. Soc. Sug. Cane Technol. | |
| 24 (2): 180-182 | |
| Poster | |
| En | |
| En Fr Es | |
| A re-assessment of land suitability classes for sugar cane was carried out to determine the impact of changes over the years in inputs mainly of cultivars, irrigation systems and mechanized operations, which constitute some of the criteria used for the land suitability classification. An analysis of cane yield for three years was undertaken and results show that the yield capacity of fields in different suitability classes differs and that the changes (improvements) in inputs are responsible for a shift in obtainable yields, i.e. from 90.0 to 101.9 t ha-1 for the highly suitable class, from 70.0 to 82.7 t ha-1 for the moderately suitable class and from 55.0 to 67.6 t ha-1 for the marginally suitable class. | |
| Sugarcane Sugarcane lands land suitability cane yields database improved inputs yield capacity | |
| Mauritius | |
| Sugarcane: Land use and management | |
| 2001-09-11 | |
| En | |
| LRD |