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