Sugar Cane (Indonesia)

Study details

  • Date: September 2012 – September 2013
  • Location: Batang District, Central Java, Indonesia
  • Crop variety: PS-881
  • Fertilizers: 50 kg/ha containing 7.5 kg/ha (15%) of Fertibor®, 12.5 kg/ha (25%) of ZnSO4, 7.5 kg/ha (15%) of Zeolit, 20 kg/ha (40%) of Dolomit, 2.5 kg/ha (5%) of CuSO4
  • Trial design: Plot size of 4 ha

Results

The treatment of Fertibor helps increase the vegetative period, height and diameter of the stem, increase the weight harvest of sugarcane by 18.69% and crystal sugar content by 16.87%.


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