Abstract:
The prevention of post harvest deterioration of sugarcane is of
prime importance from the economy of growers as well as sugar
industry point of view because the price of cane is paid not
only on weight basis but also on quality basis i.e. the
percentage of sugar in cane. It has seen that microbially
induced sucrose inversion (MISI) leads to substantial loss in a
sugar mill. It is envisaged that post harvest deterioration due
to microbially induced sucrose inversion can be prevented /
controlled by use of carefully selected bacteriocide.
Keeping this in view Authors in present study have discussed the
effect of these four nos. of chemicals namely Dithiocarbamate,
Benzal konium chloride, Sodium metasilicate, Calcium hypo
chlorite to assess their respective efficiencies in controlling
the deterioration of sugarcane. The results of experiments
prove that Dithiocarbamate is the most effective chemical for
arresting post harvest deterioration of sugarcane and the
another chemical, Sodium metasilicate was found to be least
effective for controlling post harvest deterioration of
sugarcane
Key words: post harvest deterioration, microbially induced
sucrose inversion (MISI), bacteriocide, prevention.