Abstract
Like a number of crops commonly grown as annuals sugarcane can also be grown as a perennial, the new crop developing on the root system of the old. As this article indicates this system of ratooning can be economically viable but only with careful management: it is not to be regarded as a cheaply produced catch crop.
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