Table 1.

The agronomic characters, theoretical sugar content and yield of plant cane and ratoon cane

	Sucrose content (%)	Available stalk number (hm-2)	Stalk height (cm)	Stalk diameter (cm)	Single stalk weight (kg)	Theoretical production (kg/hm2)
Plant cane	12.86±0.63a	67311.06±555.17a	312.0±1.53a	2.97±0.009a	1.96±0.02a	131785.5±393.7a
Ratoon cane	13.59±0.36a	61541.54±826.24b	325.3±9.17a	2.77±0.066b	1.78±0.10b	109404.8±6641.4b

Note: Data are means ± SE. Different letters in columns show significant differences determined by Tucky’s test (P ≤ 0.05).