Achieving sustainable cultivation of sugarcane Volume 1

Part 1 Cultivation techniques
1.The development of sugarcane cultivation: Louis Jean Claude Autrey, International Society of Sugar Cane Technologists (ISSCT), Mauritius; Salem Saumtally and Asha Dookun-Saumtally, Mauritius Sugarcane Industry Research Institute (MSIRI), Mauritius;
2.Crop modelling to support sustainable sugarcane cultivation: Abraham Singels, University of Kwazulu-Natal and University of Pretoria, South Africa;
3.The Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative: Biksham Gujja and U. S. Natarajan, AgSri Agricultural Services Pvt. Ltd., India; and Norman Uphoff, Cornell University, USA;
4.Good planting and cultivation practices in sugarcane production: Bernard L. Schroeder, University of Southern Queensland, Australia; Andrew W. Wood, Tanglewood Agricultural Services, Australia; David V. Calcino and Danielle M. Skocaj, Sugar Research Australia Limited, Australia; Alan P. Hurney, Edmonton, Australia; and Peter G. Allsopp, Seventeen Mile Rocks, Australia; 5.Improving soil management in sugarcane cultivation: Paul White and Richard Johnson, Sugar Research Unit– USDA-ARS, USA;
6.Improving nutrient management in sugarcane cultivation: Gaspar H. Korndörfer, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Brazil;
7.Advances in sugarcane irrigation for optimisation of water supply: Jean-Louis Chopart, AGERconsult, France (Section 3.2 contributed by M. T. Sall, B. Ahondokpe, and G. Walter, Senegalese Sugar Company, Senegal);
8.Best management practices for maintaining water quality in sugarcane cultivation: Jehangir H. Bhadha, University of Florida, USA; and Bernard L. Schroeder,
University of Southern Queensland, Australia;
9.Precision agriculture and sugarcane production – a case study from the Burdekin region of Australia: R. G. V. Bramley, CSIRO, Australia; T. A. Jensen, University of Southern Queensland, Australia; A. J. Webster, CSIRO, Australia; and A. J. Robson, University of New England, Australia;
10.Advances in harvesting and transport of sugarcane: Rianto van Antwerpen, South African Sugarcane Research Institute and University of the Free State, South Africa; Philipus Daniel Riekert van Heerden,, South African Sugarcane Research Institute and University of Pretoria, South Africa; Peter Tweddle, South African Sugarcane Research Institute, South Africa; Ronald Ng Cheong and Vivian Rivière, Mauritius Sugarcane Industry Research Institute (MSIRI), Mauritius;
11.Cultivating sugarcane for use in bioenergy applications: key issues: Hardev S. Sandhu, University of Florida, USA;

Part 2 Quality and sustainability
12.Analyzing the processing quality of sugarcane: Charley Richard, Sugar Processing Research Institute and the New York Sugar Trade Laboratory, USA;
13.Predicting the effect of climate change on sugarcane cultivation: Fábio R. Marin, University of São Paulo (USP) - Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (ESALQ), Brazil; Daniel S. P. Nassif, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil; and Leandro G. Costa, Murilo S. Vianna, Kassio Carvalho and Pedro R. Pereira, University of São Paulo (USP) - Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (ESALQ), Brazil;
14.Mitigating the impact of environmental, social and economic issues on sugar cane cultivation to achieve sustainability: Kathy Hurly and Richard Nicholson, SA Canegrowers, South Africa; Carolyn Baker and Michelle Binedell, South African Sugarcane Research Institute, South Africa; Vaughan Koopman, WWF-SA, South Africa; Graeme Leslie, Consultant Entomologist, South Africa; Geoff Maher, Zambia Sugar, Zambia; and Scott Pryor, North Dakota State University, USA
15.Sugarcane as a renewable resource for sustainable futures: Francis X. Johnson, Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden

“Although there have been a number of books published on sugarcane production, none are current enough to capture more recent scientific results and none of those texts address the problems of achieving sustainability of sugarcane production. The proposed content and contributing scientists are excellent choices for producing a text that will be highly relevant for sugarcane scientist, students and producers.”
Dr Paul H. Moore, Hawaii Agricultural Research Center, USA; co-editor of Sugarcane: Physiology, Biochemistry and Functional Biology