New Sugarcane
p. 29 · Read in the full issue
Varieties
From Ng Highlands
From Our Own Correspondent
Port Moresby, June 1.
THE two Australian and one American sugarcane experts who arrived in the Territory in the middle of April, have collected new varieties of cane for breeding purposes.
The Australians, Mr. C. G. Hughes and Mr. J. H. Buzzacott, from the Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations in Queens land, collected 140 new varieties in the Central Highlands,
Their associate on the survey, Dr. J. N.
Warner, from Hawaii, where he works with the Experimental Station operated by the Hawaii Sugar Planters’ Associa tion, gathered a valuable new assort ment of sugarcane seed.
There have been a number of previous sugarcane searches in New Guinea, but this is the first time that a survey has extended much beyond Kainantu. The party gathered the new species from Goroka, Aiyura, Mt. Hagen, Chimbu and Mendi, both from native gardens and wild sugarcane stands. All the new species will be tested and used in im proving sugarcane now being grown in Queensland and Hawaii.