Sugarcane grubs (larvae of Scarabaeidae) have been long-standing but non-significant pests in the Fijian sugar industry with limited research done in the past, the last being nearly a century ago. A preliminary survey was conducted in the two mill regions in Fiji,...
In 2019, the Australian sugarcane industry conducted a month-long demonstration with 12 trials to determine the commercial viability of harvesting best practice. Initiated by a small group of innovative growers and contractors from the Herbert region, the concept of a...
Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) is probably the crop with the most complex genome. Modern cultivars (2n=100-120) are derived from interspecific hybridization between the noble cane S. officinarum (2n=80) and the wild cane S. spontaneum (2n=40-128). We investigated the...
The energy efficiency of a sugar mill depends to a large extent on the performance of the evaporators. The conventional Robert evaporators used in most cane sugar factories work with high ?T, thus usually the 1st or 2nd vapours are required for juice heating and...
This work attempts to meet the significant challenges posed in the agricultural industry around accessible crop-yield prediction. Not only should the designed system provide an accurate prediction of crop yields, but the technology should aim to minimise barriers to...
