Sugarcane Breeding Institute (SBI) has developed a new sett treatment device to treat sugarcane setts or buds to raise a healthy nursery.
A release from the Institute said that it had developed a sett treatment device in collaboration with the Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering – Regional Centre, Coimbatore, for treating the setts under reduced pressure so as to prevent them from diseases like red rot, smut and a few other fungal diseases. For, they had the potential to affect yield.
Using the equipment, the setts could be treated in 10 to 15 minutes with more effective diffusion of chemicals.
The chemicals could be re-sued and that results in savings.
In red rot, smut and wilt endemic areas, fungicide treatment through the sett treatment device would protect the crop from sett-borne and soil-borne inoculum.
