Heard trench planting gives better sugarcane yield and less lodging. How to do trench method planting and spacing?
How to plant sugarcane by trench method for higher yield (ganna)?
SSambhaji Patil1yr ago · 399 views
4 Answers
🌾Farmer.in Krishi TeamExpert ✓1yr ago
Trench planting raises sugarcane yield by improving root anchorage, water use, and reducing lodging. Open trenches about 30 cm deep and 30 to 45 cm wide, spaced around 120 to 150 cm centre to centre, place two bud or three bud setts end to end at the bottom, cover lightly, and earth up gradually as the crop grows. Wider trench spacing allows intercropping early and easy drip and detrashing. Apply basal fertiliser and well rotted FYM in the trench, and treat setts before planting. This method suits good water and is popular in Kolhapur belt for high tonnage cane. It needs more initial labour or a trench opener but pays back in yield and standing crop. Follow VSI Pune or your KVK spacing for your variety and water.
AAnil Powar1yr ago
I shifted to trench planting with wide rows in Kolhapur and my cane lodges much less in the monsoon now. I also grow a short intercrop in the gap in the first two months. Yield is clearly up.
DDnyaneshwar Patil11mo ago
Pairing trench planting with drip laid inside the trench worked very well for us. The water stays in the root zone and the wide gap makes detrashing and harvesting easier. The first year setup cost more, but the standing crop and fewer lodged canes made up for it.
RRavindra Mane11mo ago
A caution, do not open the trenches in heavy waterlogged ground without a drainage outlet. In a wet patch the trench can hold water and rot the setts. We sloped the trenches slightly and kept an outlet channel so excess rain drained off, then the method gave its full benefit.