Abstract

The article in Indian Sugar for August 1941 by Dr. C. D. Agarwala entitled "Economic Aspects of Sugarcane Ratooning" is likely to attract the attention of sugarcane growers in our country. It may not, therefore, be without interest to indicate very briefly certain of the advantages and disadvantages connected with the ratooning of sugarcane. Ratooning, it has to be admitted, is in vogue in most of the known sugarcane countries of the world. It is not practised in Java for the reason that the land tenure system there necessitates cane lands going back to paddy after the harvest of the cane crop. Even in India there are certain places like Hospet in the district of Bellary and elsewhere where ratoons have successfully been taken for ns many as 10 to 12 years. Certain indigenous canes of North India did not lend themselves to ratooning but the Coimbatore canes which have now replaced. them ratoon well and hence the grower is now tempted to adopt it.

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