How to prevent sugarcane from lodging? Key planting techniques

        In the mid-to-late elongation stage, sugarcane plants are tall with many leaves, and are prone to lodging when hit by wind and rain. After lodging, the nodes near the ground tend to grow aerial roots and sprout side buds, causing the cane stalk to bend, consuming nutrients in the internodes, resulting in hollow or pithy centers, reduced sugarcane yield and lower sugar content, poor regrowth of ratoon cane, and also causing inconvenience at harvest. The following introduces several methods for preventing sugarcane lodging for your reference:

> Select wind-resistant and lodging-resistant varieties:

Lodging-resistant varieties are characterized by hard cane stalks, thick and sturdy bases, upright growth, and not overly vigorous late-stage growth, which helps resist lodging.

> Apply sufficient base fertilizer:

        Sugarcane requires sufficient base fertilizer, early application of topdressing, and a reasonable combination of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium fertilizers, without excessive nitrogen application, so that sugarcane seedlings grow sturdy, the cane plants do not grow excessively tall and spindly, and lodging resistance is improved.

> Deep furrows and shallow planting, high hilling:

        The root system of sugarcane grows from the root points on the root band at the base of the cane stalk. High hilling can increase the root band buried in soil, allowing more cane roots to grow, enabling the cane roots to penetrate deep and anchor firmly, enhancing wind resistance and preventing lodging. If the planting furrow is too shallow, it easily leads to uprooting and lodging.

> Strip leaves to prevent lodging:

        The lower leaves of sugarcane have partially dried up, and old leaves have low photosynthetic efficiency. In the late stage, each sugarcane plant only needs to retain 6-7 fully emerged leaves. Excess old and dead leaves should be stripped off to reduce the weight burden on the cane stalk, reduce the wind-catching area, and prevent lodging.

> Tie canes to prevent lodging:

        Sugarcane plants are tall. In September, when the cane plants reach 2 m in height, two rows of cane should be cross-tied into a "" shape, which can effectively prevent lodging.