2025, Vol. 8, Issue 1, Part G

author(s)
DN Shelar, K Prathapan, NR Kadge, MG Lagare, RR Nirgude and VB Shinde

abstract
Sugarcane (Saccharum spp. hybrid) is cultivated in tropical region as a cash crop. It is one of India's important commercial industrial crops that impact on an average of 50 million sugarcane growers and near about 5 lakh workers of sugar mills. It is grown on an area of nearly fifty lakh hectares with 494.22 MT Production having productivity of 84.01 tones ha^-1in 2022-23. Sugarcane impacts on social, economical and cultural growth of Indian agriculture and GDP of India. Sugarcane is on the top in Indian agriculture scenario because of cultivation in different agro-climatic zones of India. Sugarcane is used as input in sugar mills and near about 25 others processed industries that manufacturing papers, alcohol, chemicals and cattle feed. Considering the potential of sugarcane, there is still an enormous scope to increase sugarcane production by increasing productivity per unit area per unit time. This requires sugarcane-growing farmers to be ready to face new challenges like, soil health, availability of good quality seed material, sufficient irrigation facilities, damage by weed, pest, diseases, aberrant weather situations, global warming and increasing cost of inputs.