EVALUATION OF DIFFERENT SUGARCANE VARIETIES FOR QUALITY AND QUANTITY TRAITS UNDER TANDOJAM CONDITIONS

A field experiment was  conducted  during the year 2008-09 to evaluate the growth and yield behavior of different sugarcane varieties collected from different Research Institutes of the country at the  field of Sugarcane Section, Agriculture Research Institute, Tandojam. The results revealed that maximum cane yield of 123.80  tons ha-1was recorded by the variety LRK-2004, followed by variety S-2000-CPSG-1550 with average cane yield of 123.30  tons ha-1. Sugarcane varieties HOTH-326, S-2002-US-637, Gulabi-95, CP-80-1827 and HOTH-300 also performed  better with average cane yield of 118.40, 119.20, 116.50, 114.70 and 114.20 tons ha-1, respectively. Variety 2000-CPSG-1550 gave the maximum sugar yield of (12.28 tons ha-1), followed by LRK-2003  with average sugar yield of  12.01 tons ha-1, respectively. Sugarcane variety CPNIA-82-223 performed poor with lowest sugar yield of (7.81 t ha-1).KEYWORDS:  Sugarcane, National Uniform Varietal Yield Trial, cane yield, sugar yield, Tandojam