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Farming System
- Mechanized cane growing systems
- Hodge System Cultivation
- Precision controlled traffic farming
- Minimum tillage equipment and practice
- Rotocult
- Customized irrigation and drainage systems
- Green manuring and composting
- Year-round cane harvesting systems
- Cane variety selection
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Farm Accounting
- Supervised credit
- Loan processing facilitation
- Monitoring of receivables
- Application of software-based farm accounting and statistics
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Applied Research
- Crops
- Sugar crops (ie sugarcane, sweet sorghum)
- Biofuel feedstocks (ie sorghum syrup, nipa syrup
- Energy crops (ie arundo donax, high-fibre cane, short-rotation coppice)
- Supply Chain
- Biomass fuel logistics
* Collection
* Transport
* Processing systems
- Biomass fuel characteristics
* Moisture content analysis
* Storage
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Feedstock Supply Management
- GIS-based feedstock planning system
- Cane plantation development
- Energy crops development
- Short-rotation coppice system for tree plantations
- Non-woody energy crops
- Agricultural and forest residue collection systems
- Cane trash
- Crop residues
- Forest residues
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