Degradation of Sugarcane Trash by Primary Treatment Methods

Abstract: India is the second largest sugar producing country in the world and producing 70 tons/ha (28.34 tons/acre) of sugarcane. India is agricultural based country and 70% people of India depend on the agriculture. India produces the rice, wheat and other crops in the largest quantity. One ton of sugarcane trash contains 5.4 kg of N, 1.3kg of P2O5, and 3.1 kg of K2O and small quantities of micronutrients. Annual production of sugarcane is 285 Mt/Yr. and dry residue generated is 107.5 Mt/Yr. In this study degradation of sugarcane trash is conducted by vessel composting method. 100 gram of trash is taken in each container and 30 gram of treatments like pressmud, lime powder, cow dung, waste decomposer, bacteria inoculum are added in different containers. To find the fastening the degradation of sugarcane trash all these treatments are compared with trash control by conducting the NPK analysis at 0, 15, and 30days. From the experiment setup results trash with pressmud and trash with lime are showing significant results