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Agriculture | This Farmer Grew 100 Tonnes of 20-Foot Tall Sugarcane in One Acre! Here's How! -Manabi Katoch

This Farmer Grew 100 Tonnes of 20-Foot Tall Sugarcane in One Acre! Here's How! -Manabi Katoch

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published Published on Dec 14, 2017   modified Modified on Dec 14, 2017
-TheBetterIndia.com

Appaso Kabade, a farmer from Karandwadi village in the Sangli district of Maharashtra, owned 30 acres of ancestral land. As a local sugar mill was giving a reasonable price for sugarcane, he started growing the crop. He was able to grow about 25 to 30 tonnes of sugarcane per acre, but his dream was to reach up to 100 tonnes from the land, but it remained unfulfilled.

Suresh took to farming at an early age and realised that he did not want to study after Class 9.

“My siblings are well educated, so everyone was very disappointed with me when I left studies. But they also understood that farming is my passion and I wanted to fulfil my father’s dream of getting 100 tonnes sugarcane at least once,” says Suresh while talking to The Better India from his farm.

Suresh started experimenting with various techniques of planting sugarcane on his farm. As luck would have it, the local Rajaram Bapu Sugar Factory invited Prof. Aabasaheb Salunkhe from Vasant Dada Sugar Institute, Pune to train the farmers for free.

“It was Aabasaheb who visited our farms and resolved our problems. He also made us understand the contents of the fertilisers used to grow sugarcane and the optimum utilisation of it. Before this, we did not even know what we were putting into our crops. No one knew how much nitrogen is there in NPK and how much potash in DPA,” informs Suresh.

With every year, the yield and the size and weight of the sugarcane kept increasing, and this year Suresh has harvested 100 tonnes per acre from his first crop and 120 tonnes from the second crop. The size of each sugarcane this year exceeded 20 feet. Each one weighed more than 4 kg.

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TheBetterIndia.com, 13 December, 2017

TheBetterIndia.com, 13 December, 2017, https://www.thebetterindia.com/124175/suresh-kabade-100-tonnes-sugarcane-in-one-acre/


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