Assessments of red rot tolerant sugarcane variety Swarnamukhi in Chittoor District

Abstract

Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Kalikiri has conducted the On-Farm trials during late Rabi/summer during the years 2020 and 2021 in order to assess the performance of improved variety Swarnamukhi. Swarnamukhi was taken as test variety and compared with local variety Kanakadurga. Results revealed that total cane height, milleable cane height, no. of internodes, no. of milleable internodes, internode length, cane weight were higher in Swarnamukhi variety which were the major yield attributing characters. On an average, mean yield of 115.7 t/ha were recorded in Swarnamukhi with 5.7% yield increase over Kankadurga (109.5 t/ha). Swarnamukhi was recorded 8.0% higher jaggery yield (12.2 t/ha) compared to local variety (11.3 t/ha).Net returns of 149959 and 129375 Rs.ha-1 were recorded in Swarnamukhi and local variety, respectively. B: C ratio was significantly higher in Swarnamukhi (1.67) compared to local variety with 1.58.