Sugar production in India by 2000 AD: (1) constraints and strategies for increasing production and production efficiency; (2) constraints and strategies for removing processing, infrastructure and economic limitations.
Solomon, S.
Sugar 2000 Symposium: Sugarcane: research towards efficient and sustainable production. Year: 1996 Pages: 9-11; 12-14
1996
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The first article (pp.9-11) focuses on the production constraints facing the Indian sugar industry if it is to raise sugarcane production to meet the estimated annual demand of 320 Mt by the year 2000. Various constraints are discussed: regional imbalances in productivity, high cost of cultivation, fluctuation in sugarcane area, lack of suitable varieties for saline, alkaline and waterlogged conditions, lack of early maturing high sugar varieties, low sugar recovery, low productivity of ratoons, and lack of suitable pricing and marketing policies. The second article (pp.12-14) briefly highlights the major thrusts of national sugar policy which are needed to meet production requirements. These are: varietal improvement, improvements in crop management, improvements in yield and recovery and prevention of postharvest losses, development of an efficient marketing system and appropriate policies on pricing, buffer stocks, licensing, import/export regulations and decontrol, establishment of energy-ef
ficient sugar factories and byproduct development.