ABSTRACT
The world’s sugarcane cropped area in 2014 was over 27 million ha with a total cane production of 1900 million tonnes, making the world’s average cane yield 70 tonnes per ha. In terms of cultivated area, sugarcane ranks 7th place in the world, after wheat, maize, rice, soybean, barley and sorghum. As there is little scope for increasing the cane area under cultivation, yields per ha need to be increased to fulfil the growing demand for sugar.
