@inproceedings{oai:soar-ir.repo.nii.ac.jp:00011413, author = {HOSSAIN, Md. Amzad}, book = {Shinshu University International Symposium 2010 : Sustainable Agriculture and Environment : Asian Networks II  信州大学国際シンポジウム2010 : 持続的農業と環境 : アジアネットワークII ― アジアネットワークの発展をめざして―}, month = {Feb}, note = {Sugarcane is a food-cum-cash-cum-industrial crop with high varietals resistance, anti-erosive and thus helps preserve biodiversity in tropical and subtropical zones. Sustaining sugar requirement as a source of food for an ever-growing world population in the changing ambient environment due to gradual depletion of natural resources, pollution, rising costs, low productivity and expansion of urban communities are some of the major challenges in the present century. Sugarcane and sugar productivity per se in many developing countries as well as Bangladesh, where sugarcane is growing, however, productivity is still remained far below than potential due to multiple abiotic environmental factors and socio-economic reasons. Due to high demand of cereals and vegetable crops sugarcane is being pushed to stresses (water-logging, flood, drought and salinity) prone marginal lands. Sugarcane as a long duration high in-put crop is facing enormous challenges and ardently waiting for productivity boost which is only possible through introduction of modern biotechnologies in its production-processing–diversification system. Bangladesh Sugarcane Research Institute developed stresses (water-logging, flood, drought and salinity) tolerant high yielding varieties of sugarcane and production technologies especially intercropping for sustainable production under ambient environment in particular agro-ecological and socio-economic conditions of resource poor farmers. Technologies for ancillary crops (Date-palm, Palmyra-palm, Palm-leaves, Stevia), jaggery (locally known as gur) and mushroom production on sugarcane bagasse as functional food have been developed as well as sugar beet adaptation is being trying to sustain sugarcane and sugar production. Sugarcane and sugar producing genetic resources are also being conserved. The aim of this paper is to attempt to present the potential of sugarcane for sustainable agriculture and food production as regards the environment as well as to discuss current status of sugarcane and sugar production as food given emphasis in Bangladesh., Other, Shinshu University International Symposium 2010 : Sustainable Agriculture and Environment : Asian Networks II  信州大学国際シンポジウム2010 : 持続的農業と環境 : アジアネットワークII ― アジアネットワークの発展をめざして―. 信州大学農学部, 2010, 85-91}, pages = {85--91}, publisher = {信州大学国際シンポジウム2010実行委員会}, title = {Sugarcane for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Production under Ambient Environment}, year = {2010} }