Abstract

                                I am grateful to the Working Committee of your Union for the opportunity they have given me to speak to you on the subject of Sugarcane Breeding. The success of the Breeding work attempted at my Station is directly dependent upon the amount of sympathetic interest that the Station is able to evoke from the Agriculturists assembled here and the guidance which the Station is able to get from them as to the kind of cane that is needed in each locality. I feel confident that both my colleague- Mr. Nand Lall Dutt, M. Sc., who is in immediate charge of the breeding of thick canes and myself will have from this symposium many valuable suggestions that would materially influence our cane breeding programme with particular reference to at least Madras conditions.

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