Research Article
Effect of Harvesting Ages on Yield and Yield Components of Sugar Cane Varieties Cultivated at Finchaa Sugar Factory, Oromia, Ethiopia
Table 2
Effect of sugar cane harvesting ages on yield and yield components.
| Age in months | Cane yield (ton/ha/month) | Sugar yield (ton/ha/month) | Brix % juice | Estimated recoverable sucrose (%) | Sucrose % |
| 12 | 11.34b | 1.23e | 15.38d | 11.31d | 12.03d | 13 | 11.13b | 1.35d | 15.87d | 11.47cd | 12.32c | 14 | 11.39b | 1.49c | 16.83c | 11.59c | 12.63b | 15 | 12.08a | 1.89a | 17.68b | 11.98b | 13.54a | 16 | 12.16a | 1.67b | 19.03a | 12.78a | 13.72a | CV | 1.41 | 3.42 | 2.32 | 0.82 | 0.81 | LSD | 0.31 | 0.10 | 0.74 | 0.18 | 0.20 |
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