Agriculture Commission
Potential for the use of machine learning in sugarcane production in Thailand: a review
Last Updated: junio 19, 2025Even though sugarcane is a major agricultural crop in Thailand, Thai sugarcane growers have recently endured high production costs with reduced income. For this reason, there have been many studies to assist farmers to achieve greater efficiencies on-farm. Recently, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology and machine learning (ML) have been introduced into agriculture.
Quality of mechanized harvesting in the Cauca River Valley
Last Updated: junio 19, 2025Samuel Galeano, Henrry Tarapues and Alejandro EstradaColombian Sugarcane Research Center (CENICAÑA), Experimental Station, Cali-Florida Highway Km 26, Valle del Cauca, Colombia The...
Relationship between sugarcane area zoning by production levels and soil fertility in Tucumán province, Argentina, using geotechnologies
Last Updated: junio 19, 2025Soil fertility maps enable the detection of areas with different nutrient levels, and identifying environments with varying production levels contributes to zoning and the management of practices that allow for the differential treatment of each zone.
Scientific and participatory research strategies towards better sugarcane quality management in South Africa
Last Updated: junio 19, 2025The wide diversity in growing conditions and sugarcane varieties complicates cane-quality management in South Africa. Due to the importance of high cane quality towards the economic sustainability of sugarcane farming, the South African Sugarcane Research Institute (SASRI) invests in scientific and participatory research that aims to enable and promote judicious cane quality management by farmers.
Sectoral collaboration for technological sustainability: The GNSS RTK network in the sugar agro-industry
Last Updated: junio 19, 2025Precision agriculture has transformed the agricultural sector, especially in sugarcane farming, by increasing its efficiency and productivity using self-guided machinery, RTK drones, and robots, However, factors such as uncontrolled traffic, diversity of machinery brands, and differences in instrumentation among machines, alongside with the high cost of RTK mobile stations and the lack of standardization in correction signals, have hindered a widespread adoption of this technology.
Site-specific nitrogen management through measuring soil nitrogen to maximize yield response in sugarcane
Last Updated: junio 19, 2025Experiments to measure the response of sugarcane varieties to nitrogen (N), phosphorus, and potassium fertilization were used to define the differentiated response to N, explained mainly by the availability of N in the soil and the variety of sugarcane. In soils with greater available N, the response to mineral fertilizer was very reduced and vice versa.
Site-specific precision agriculture to improve production in sugarcane
Last Updated: junio 19, 2025At La Estrella sugar mill in Panama, site-specific precision agriculture is being used on some sugarcane blocks where production had declined rapidly by the second-ratoon harvest. The study area is about 150 ha at three sites within the plantation.
Smart irrigation systems combined with subsurface drip irrigation improve sugarcane yield and water-use efficiency
Last Updated: julio 6, 2025In Japan, sugarcane crops are frequently exposed to drought after rainy season; thus, irrigation management during summer is essential to achieve high yields. To efficiently use limited water resource, we demonstrated smart irrigation systems that can be remotely controlled and determine irrigation requirement and timing using micro weather data. A field experiment was conducted on Minamidaito Island for 2 years.
Soil bioindicators under contrasting sugarcane postharvest residue management systems
Last Updated: junio 19, 2025The global sugar industry is transitioning from pre-harvest burning of sugarcane fields to green harvesting, a sustainable alternative with multiple benefits. In a study conducted in 2011 in Simoca, Tucumán, Argentina on the variety LCP 85-384, the impact of burning (BR) and conservation as cover (CR) of the sugarcane harvest residue (HR) on different populations of soil microorganisms and on some key enzymatic activities was evaluated.
Soil-health status and evaluating the use of soil-health promoters to improve sugarcane productivity in Mauritius
Last Updated: junio 19, 2025Mauritius has been experiencing a yield decline in its sugarcane productivity since late 1980s; a gradual loss in soil health was reported as one of the major causes in 2008. Despite some positive results obtained from remedial actions through the development of new cropping systems, yield decline has not been fully mitigated.