The present informative compendium attempts to provide general information about sugar, sugarcane crops, national and international scenario of sugarcane, its growth, development, terminology used with this crop, ripening, juice quality, staling, milling sugarcane verities, pests and diseases affective sugarcane constraints to sugarcane productivity, new equipments and process technologies developed, how to make and effective development plan for a sugar mill area, sugar organization at the national and international levels, some sugarcane farmers will be of interest equally to the researchers, development workers, elite farmers, planners and all others interested with sugarcane and sugar, per se.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ashok K. Shrivastava
Dr. Ashok K. Shrivastav An alumni of the Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalya, Hardwar and the Indian Agricultural Rersearch Institute, new Delhi, Dr. Ashok K. Shrivastavs is Principal Scientist & Head, Division of Pant Physiology & Biotecheistry, Indian Institute of Sugarcane Research, Lucknow. His research interests include production physiology, stress physiology, ripening, mineral nutrition and ratoon management in sugarcane. He owes more than 90 research/review papers in National and International Scientific Journals/books and 9 books/technical bulletins to his credit. Dr. Shrivastav is recipient of the Association for the Advance of Agricultural Science Medal (Junior) for the year 1989 and the Third Prize in the All India Essay Competition on World Food Summit organised by the Indian Institute of Public Administration on behalf of the Ministry of Food, Government of India, in 1996. He has been the Vice President of the Indian Society for Plant Physiology for the year 2004. He is Editor of the Indian Journal of Sugarcane Technology published by the Association of Sugarcane Technologies of India, Luckow. He was deputed as an Exert on Sugarcane Production to Lao Peoples’ Democratic republic in 1999.
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