Advantages of Wider Row Spacing.
In the present context, the sugar mills need to stabilize their cane area and production and ultimately attain a viable and sustainable operation besides up-keeping farmer’s enthusiasm in cane cultivation (Panghal 2010). This can be achieved only through viable technologies that can reduce the cost of cultivation with no compromise on cane yield. Any new innovation has its own advantages and disadvantages during and after adoption. If the farmers perceived that the advantages of the new technology are more than its disadvantages, then it leads to adoption of that technology. In this study, the respondents were asked to enlist the advantages in wide row spacing with an open ended schedule (Table 4).