First Sugarcane tissue culture lab in Cooperative sector was established on september.1994
in this mill for quick multiplication of sugarcane seed of newly / desired varieties.
Till date, this lab is catering the demand of micro- propagated tissue culture plants
of sugarcane for all the cooperative sugar mills in the state.
Tissue culture Technique offer the best methodology to obtain quality seed at faster
rate and take less than 4 years to saturate the whole area under new varieties as
compared to the conventional method which takes 8 to 10 years, thereby prolong the
field life of a variety and eliminate chance of seed transmitted diseases and pests
etc.
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