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1. to reduce soil degradation
2. to conserve, improve and make more efficient use of natural resources
1. Destroy the old cane stools with a chemical (glyphosate) spray when the sprouts are about four weeks old
2. Prepare the seedbed with one pass of the Reduced Tillage Machine (RTM), which opens a furrow in the inter-row space (Figure 2)
3. Drop seed cane
4. Apply fertiliser
5. Cover with conventional tractor drawn covering tool
6. Inter-row cultivate when cane is sufficiently grown to destroy old banks and build up bank along new cane row (Figure 4)
1. reduced fuel consumption during land preparation
2. reduced establishment cost of up to 50%
3. increase in land prepared in an hour