There is an area of about 5000 acres under the sugar- cane crop in the four coastal taluks of Coondapoor, Udipi, Mangalore and Kasargod in the South Canara District. This area was under one or two local varieties called "Dasa Kabbu" and Bidru "Kabbu". Red mauritius was introduced two decades ago, and now this variety has almost replaced the old local varieties. The trial of some of the Co-varieties is in progress in the Kallianpur sugar factory area. The performances of a few of the thick cane varieties like Co. 419, 413, 421 and 408 are really good and there is already an area of about 150 acres under these Co-varieties in the two Taluks of Manga-lore and Udipi. The results so far achieved go to show that these improved Co-varieties are much superior to the Red mauritius variety, both in tonnage and juice quality, and we hope that within the course of another 10 years, these Co-varieties will completely replace the Red mauritius variety which is fast deteriorating.
Kalidas Shetty (Sun,) studied this question.