About the Book: Sugarcane: Pests and Disease Management
Sugarcane is an important cash crop and can be cultivated under diverse agro
climatic conditions throughout the world. It has contributed signi?cantly to the
growth of Indian Agriculture and National Gross Domestic Products (GDP).It is
providing raw material to sugar industry, the second largest agro-based industry
after textile. It also provides employment not only to agricultural laborers in
the ?elds but also to industrial labours in the sugar factories. It is grown
under varied soil and climatic conditions, but its productivity is generally
limited by abiotic and biotic stresses as it has to face vagaries of nature in
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