Paper Details

Name: G. Mallesha
Country: India

Year: 2025
Volume: Volume-12, Issue-1 (January-June)
Page Number: 249-258
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20341050

The present study has been made an attempt to analyze the growth and trend pattern of area, production and productivity of sugarcane in Karnataka. Karnataka state being the third largest sugarcane and sugar producing state has potency generate lot of sugarcane by-products in the sugar industry every year. As in the case of the rest of the country, sugar industry in Karnataka also is facing with unpredictability due to a number of reasons including uncertainties in sugarcane production on account of weather and rainfall conditions. Karnataka has been witnessing fluctuating trends in area, production and productivity of sugarcane. It is observed that the economic returns on capital invested on sugar mills would be stable, when the co-products i.e. bagasse, molasses and press mud are efficiently used for production of bio-ethanol, power and bio-fertilizer. Hence, there is enormous opportunity and attractive proposition for sugarcane crop as molecular farming for considering high biomass and its huge potential. Sugarcane had already been engineered to produce high value molecules such as therapeutics, industrial enzymes, vitamins, vaccines, bio-plastics etc.