Sugar.Today,sugar has become a primary necessity and "is recognised as a stratagic military requirement in wartime furnishinng about 13per cent.of the total energy we obtain from foods".The investigations of numerous chemists,biologists,plant breeders and technologists have made the growing of sugarcane and manufacturing og sugar one of the most officient industries.In providing sugar at reasonable prices with due regard for a decent living for the sugarcane farmer.the most important part of the task devolves upon the plant breeder.The continuous procession of varieties of sugarcane that we see emerging from the Coimbatore Sugarcane Breeding Station.amply demonstrates that the cane-breeders are ever alive to meet the challenge of diseases.pests and altered environmental and economic conditions.
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