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	11.34^b	1.23^e	15.38^d	11.31^d	12.03^d
13	11.13^b	1.35^d	15.87^d	11.47^cd	12.32^c
14	11.39^b	1.49^c	16.83^c	11.59^c	12.63^b
15	12.08^a	1.89^a	17.68^b	11.98^b	13.54^a
16	12.16^a	1.67^b	19.03^a	12.78^a	13.72^a
CV	1.41	3.42	2.32	0.82	0.81
LSD	0.31	0.10	0.74	0.18	0.20