Our Correspondent :
Another new variety of sugarcane with high yield and high sugar content has been released from Bangladesh Sugarcrop Research Institute. Wednesday (June 30), Director General of the Research Institute. Amjad Hossain said the variety was released at the 105th meeting of the National Seed Board held under the chairmanship of Mesbahul Islam, senior secretary of the agriculture ministry.
He said that the yield of this variety (93.50-121.52 tons) is 6.36% higher than that of the most popular Czech variety Ishwardi 39 and sugar holding capacity (12.06-15.11%) and molasses extraction rate (10.75%). ) 0.38% and 0.85% more than that variety respectively.
The variety is thick and resistant to smart and wilt diseases. It does not show red rot disease.
Field workers can work in the sugarcane field effortlessly as there is less edge in the sugarcane leaves.
Note that the clone, which was invented in 2009 through hybridization of two varieties of sugarcane in India and Pakistan, was re-hybridized and selected in 2011 as I111/11.
It was then selected for release as a new variety through several studies including preliminary yield test, advanced yield test, regional yield test.
The variety was released in the presence of all the members at the meeting of the National Seed Board. Vice Chancellor of Bangladesh Agricultural University Prof Lutful Hasan and Honorary Executive Chairman of the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council Sheikh Mohammad Bakhtiyar praised the variety.
