Wednesday, 18 June 2025
The ‘International Conference on Sugarcane Research: Sugarcane for Sugar and Beyond’ will be held from November 7 to 10, 2020. Dubbed CaneCon2020, the event will be held at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) Coimbatore.
The conference will serve as a common platform to the sugarcane researchers, cane development officials and sugar industry personnel from across the globe.
It will be jointly organized by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research-Sugarcane Breeding Institute (ICAR-SBI), Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) and the Society for Sugarcane Research and Development (SSRD).
ICAR-SBI is currently engaged in evolving sugarcane varieties for India through conventional and molecular breeding approaches. The institute holds the largest sugarcane germplasm collections / gene bank in the world.
TNAU had released about 35 cane varieties, including the high yielding and high sugar variety CoC 671 which made a remarkable sugar recovery gain in the tropical states of India.
The SSRD, since its inception in 2011, has been functioning in close association with ICAR-SBI and has organized three international and six national symposia and two regional workshops.
The ’Journal of Sugarcane Research’ is the official publication of the society and it is hosted online in the ICAR’s e-publication portal.
