Cana-de-açúcar: comportamento de variedades em Piracicaba, SP

An experiment was carried out during the period 1976 to 1979, in Latosolic B 'terra roxa', at Instituto Agronomico Experimental Station, in Piracicaba, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil, to evaluate the performance of the following sugarcane varieties: CB41-76, CB36-24, CB40-69, CB47-89, CB47-355, CB53-98, IAC52-179, Co740, IAC60-537, Co1148, CP51-22 and Q76. The results showed that CP51-22 and Co740 had the best performance, followed by the varieties IAC60-537, CB41-76, CB47-89 and CB53-98 in terras of cane and sugar yields (t/ha).