Some Cautions for Harvesting Sugarcane

1. Harvest sugarcane in good time. Farmers harvest their cane between June and December when rainfall is less frequent and the plant’s sugar content is at its highest. 

2. Cut the sugarcane with good quality. Use sharp tools to cut canes to ensure flat notch and no fracture of the cane head and it is advisable to keep the cane head 7-10cm long. 

3. Plan for cane harvesting according to the sugarcane variety,, planting time and ripening time to make sure that the harvested canes are totally fresh.

4. Clean the cane field in time. There are two ways to clean the cane land after harvesting. One is piling up the sugarcane leaf in the furrow to be fertilizer, or burning the sugarcane leaves after drying to be fertilizer; the other is removing the cane leaves out of the cane land to be compost, and then fertilizing the field.