Author Description

"The sugarcane industry plays a vital role in the agricultural economy of several countries around the world. However, this prosperous sector faces a number of challenges in terms of stagnating production, price regulations, unstable sugarcane market, and water scarcity/drought. This new book, Sugarcane Cultivation and Management: Challenges and Opportunities, summarizes cultivation and management of sugarcane crop production strategies and related sustainability issues. This book, divided into 11 chapters, covers a wide range of topics related to sugarcane plantation and growth. The book details important topics such as the impact of various stressors along with environment stress management in sugarcane crops, major sugarcane pests and their control, use of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPRs) in improving sugarcane yield, role of plant secondary metabolism in sugarcane during unfavorable environmental conditions, etc. The book also discusses the use of sugarcane management techniques for higher crop yield and water productivity"--