Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum), an economically important
plant of several countries including Thailand, is cultivated in
about 10.7 thousand million square-meters (6.7 million rais) in
Thailand [1]. Harvesting of sugarcane is difficult because the
leaves are sharp. Therefore, removal of the leaves by burning
before cutting the sugarcane shoot is a popular practice, but
this causes serious air pollution. Moreover, the price of the
resultant sugarcane shoot is reduced. Value addition to
sugarcane leaves would be likely to stop or to reduce the
practice of leaf burning as well as to improve the environmental
and economic efficiency of sugarcane agriculture