New Delhi, May 30: Sugarcane production is likely to increase by 10 per cent to over 300 million tonnes in the 2010-11 crop year on improved cane acreage and better yield, a cooperative sugar body said.
In the 2009-10 crop year, sugarcane production stood at 274 million tonnes. Sugarcane is planted round the year and the crop is harvested during October-September.
“Sugarcane output would be more than 300 million tonnes in 2010-11 crop year as farmers are enthused to bring more area under the crop driven by better cane prices last year,” National Federation of Cooperative Sugar Factories (NFCSF) Managing Director Vinay Kumar said.
New varieties of sugarcane are promising yield increases to 65 tonne per hectare from 55 tonne per hectare in the country’s top two cane growing states — Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra, he said.
–Agencies