Standardization of Nutrients Required for Raising Pro Tray Chip Budded Sugarcane Seedlings for Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative (SSI) Technology

Field investigateions were carried out for the standardization for improving the quality of protray chip budded seedlings of sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.) for SSI (Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative). The research was conducted under shade net conditions at Sugarcane Research Station, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Sirugamani. The experiment was conducted in Randomized Block design (RBD) with three replications and 14 treatments including different combinations of nursery nutrient management and nutrient spraying on chip budded seedlings for finding out the standardizing the nutrients required for getting vigorous chib budded seedlings of sugarcane. The study on nutrients requirement for chip budded seedlings raised in protray with the nursery media of cocopeat & sugarcane trash compost at a 2:1 ratio found that application of 0.5 g urea/bud along with foliar spraying of 1% urea at 15 DAP recorded the higher vigour index of chip budded seedlings of sugarcane at 30 DAP.