Glimpses of Sugarcane Varietal Screening and Improvement at Pusa, Bihar
ACTA SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE (ISSN: 2581-365X) Volume 4 Issue 3 March 2020 Review Article Glimpses of Sugarcane Varietal Screening and Improvement at Pusa, Bihar Balwant Kumar* Received: January 18, 2020 SRI, DRPCAU, Pusa, Bihar, India Published: February 08, 2020 Balwant Kumar, SRI, DRPCAU, Pusa, Bihar, India. *Corresponding Author: © All rights are reserved by Balwant DOI: 10.31080/ASAG.2020.04.0793 Kumar. Abstract Sugarcane is primarily grown in nine states of India namely; Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Punjab, and Tamil Nadu. During early 19th century sugarcane cultivation started as cash crop and number of sugar facto- ries open keeping in view a glimpses of sugarcane varietal screening and Improvement has been reviewed and found that Bihar was rich in term of sugar factories and its 20-40% share in national sugar production was already reported. It was the introduction of Co seedling that replace local varieties under cultivation those were Co 210, Co213, Co 214, Co 313, Co 331, Co 513,Co 356, Co 395,Co 453,Co508 and CoK 32, Co 383, Co 622,Co 419,Co 617,Co1148 and Co 1158 while in present varietal scenario cultivated varieties are Co 0238, Co 0118, Co 98014, CoP 9301, CoLk 94184, CoP 112, CoSe 01434, CoP 09437, BO 154 and CoP 16437. It was also found that POJ 2878, Co285, Co281, CP 28/11, Co213 & Co205 were mainly responsible for improvement in high yield and high sugar. The varietal development and evaluation of sugarcane varieties started in Bihar by after that Central Sugarcane Research Institute was established 1932 since then total 281 clones were developed at SRI, while several Sugarcane varieties of other place were also evalu- ated.
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