Sami Ullah^1,2, Shakeel Ahmad Anjum^1*, Muhammad Mohsin Raza³, Aamir Riaz¹, Adeel Abbas⁴, Malik Muhammad Yousif³, Jinchuan Ma², Yingxia Liu⁵, Jiajia Zhang², Dingwen Cheng², Yaxin Xu⁵, Iftikhar Ali¹

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¹ Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
² Ministry of Agricultural Key Laboratory of Crop Nutrition and Fertilization, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China.
³ Arid Zone Research Institute, Pakistan Agriculture Research Council, Bahawalpur, Pakistan.
⁴ Weed Science Laboratory, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China.
⁵ College of Resource and Environment, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun, China.
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Abstract:

One of the main reasons behind reduced cane yield is pathetic method of planting. Planting method and row spacing are the most important yield contributing factors in sugarcane. A field experiment was carried out in order to determine quality and yield of sugarcane in various spatial arrangements. Treatments are 180 cm spaced trenches with triple row strips; 180 cm spaced trenches with alternate row strips; 120 cm spaced trenches with double row strips and 60 cm spaced furrow with single row. Perusal of data revealed that 3.6%, 13.4%, 15%, 15.3% more cane diameter (cm), cane length (cm), stripped cane yield (t·ha^ˉ1), sugar yield (t·ha^ˉ1) were obtained from 180 cm spaced trenches with triple row strips as compared to conventional planting method i.e. 60 cm spaced furrows. While the number of millable canes m^ˉ2, polarity %, cane juice purity %, cane juice %, commercial cane sugar % and cane sugar recovery % remained non-significant by different planting techniques.

Keywords: Furrow Planting, Quality, Row Spacing, Sugarcane, Trench Planting, Yield

Cite this paper: Ullah, S. , Ahmad Anjum, S. , Mohsin Raza, M. , Riaz, A. , Abbas, A. , Muhammad Yousif, M. , Ma, J. , Liu, Y. , Zhang, J. , Cheng, D. , Xu, Y. and Ali, I. (2016) Optimizing Row Spacing to Ameliorate the Productivity of Spring Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.). Agricultural Sciences, 7, 531-538. doi: 10.4236/as.2016.78053.

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