Advanced seed multiplication and planting techniques for sustainable sugarcane

Abstract

Sugarcane is an important industrial crop for sugar and ethanol production, but its conventional propagation through three-bud setts is bulky, costly, and prone to disease transmission. Advanced seed multiplication methods such as tissue culture, bud chip, cane node, and spaced transplanting address these challenges by reducing seed requirement, ensuring disease-free planting material, and enhancing rapid varietal replacement. Combined with improved planting techniques like trench, FIRB, and ring pit method, these innovations increase productivity, resource efficiency, mechanization, and sustainability in sugarcane cultivation.