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| MSI99P3090 | |
| Seeruttun, S. Barbe, C. Mc Intyre, G. | |
| La plantation partiellement mécanisée de la canne à sucre à Maurice | |
| Association Reunionnaise pour le développement de la technologie agricole et sucrière (ARTAS); Association française de la canne à sucre (AFCAS, Communications présentées au Congrès ARTAS/AFCAS, St. Denis, La Réunion, 12-18 octobre 1997 | |
| 4e Congrès International de l'ARTAS; 2e Rencontre internationale en langue française, St Denis, La Reunion, 12-18 octobre 1998 | |
| Periodical article | |
| 1997 | |
| p. 190-198 | |
| Ste Clotilde/Paris, ARTAS/AFCAS | |
| Also published in La Revue agricole et sucrière de l'Ile Maurice 76 (3):21-27, under the title: Partially mechanized planting of sugar cane in Mauritius. | |
| Fr | |
| Fr En | |
| Partially mechanized planting (PMP) consists in placing whole-stalk nursery canes in furrows before they are chopped into 50-60 cm portions, sprayed with fungicide and finally covered mechanically with soil. PMP was tested as an alternative to manual or mechanical planting in order to alleviate the problem of labour shortage. When canes are placed in the furrows with a 50 per cent overlap, the amount of planting material used in PMP and manual planting is similar. Both methods give equivalent cane yields at harvest. PMP requires 8-10 man-days per ha compared to 10 man-days and 12 woman-days for manual planting. Compared to a mechanicas (whole-stalk) planter, PMP has a faster rate of planting and uses less planting material with comparable labour input. | |
| SUGARCANE MECHANIZATION MECHANICAL PLANTING YIELDS LABOUR REQUIREMENTS | |
| MAURITIUS | |
| Sugarcane: Cultural operations | |
| Mechanization | |
| 1998-09-16 | |
| En | |
| LIB | |
| cat | |
| COWA |