All India Co-ordinated Sorghum Improvement Project, Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri-413 722, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India
Online published on 19 March, 2018.
A field experiment was conducted to study the effect of sweet sorghum hybrids and growth stages on green cane yield, brix and juice yield in sweet sorghum. The hybrid ICSA 675 x SSV 74 (61.1 t/ha) produced significantly the highest green cane yield, while the hybrid ICSA 675 x SSV 74 (18376 1/ha) produced significantly higher juice yield than the check CSH 22 SS (13857 1/ha). As regards brix, ICSA 731 x ICSV 93046 (15.5%) hybrid exhibited more brix than the check CSH 22 SS (14.4%). As regards growth stages, the results indicated that maximum green cane yield and juice yield were recorded at dough stage than flowering and physiological maturity. In respect of brix, maximum brix was recorded at physiological maturity than flowering and dough stages. The interaction indicated that the hybrids ICSA 675 x SSV 74 (67.7 t/ha) and ICSA 474 x SSV 74 (67.5 t/ha) at dough stage produced significantly higher green cane yield than rest of the hybrids and rest of the growth stages.
Dough, Flowering, Growth stage, Maturity, Sweet sorghum hybrids
