2023

•Sugarcane Edge: has received Rs. 17.80 Lakhs from IPTM-NAIF component-II, & Five incubates are actively developing new products as well as licensed technology commercialization.
•Ex-ante assessment of water saving by SMI in Tamil Nadu revealed that the 9034 Lakh cubic litters of irrigation water saved and increment in yield by 161 lakh tonnes to sugarcane farmers.
•AKMU is continuously upgrading IT infrastructure, timely information, and accessories for easy communication and technical support.

2022

• Economic impact of ICAR-SBI varieties and technologies in India: estimates on impact of Co 0238 on compound annual growth rate (CAGR) is significantly higher.
• Sugarcane Edge: has received Rs. 24.20 Lakhs from IPTM-NAIF component-II, & seven incubates are actively developing new products as well as licensed technology commercialization.
• ICAR-NAARM and SBI-ABI (Sugarcane Edge) has jointly organized sensitization workshop for Agri-Startups and FPO’s in the country.

2021

• An economic analysis on sugar recovery of co-canes (Co 0238) in three states (Maharastra, Karnataka, Gujarat, & Uttar Pradesh) in India.
• Economic impact and climate smartness of Co 0238 in sub-tropical India, rest of India and India study carried to know yield and sugar recovery improvement.
• A full-fledged sugarcane based ABI (Sugarcane Edge) is continued for supporting technology commercialisation and incubation activities.

2020

• An economic analysis on sugar recovery of co-canes (Co 0238) in three states (Haryana, Panjab & Uttar Pradesh) in India resulted overall improvement in recovery rates despite fluctuating sugar recovery pattern.
• Economic impact and climate smartness of Co 0238 in sub-tropical India wherein study highlighted that highest sugar production & Govt. Policy decision on permitting sugarcane juice conversion to Ethanol.
• Sugarcane based Agri-Business Incubator (ICAR-SBI-ABI) was established under NAIF funded Project.

2017-18

• AKMU has redesigned and upgraded the institutes’ website.
• Capacity building programmes conducted to staff members on the topics of Payroll, Core-HRMS, etc.
• A feasibility study of recommended sugarcane production and protection technologies for promoting rural entrepreneurship contd. mainly soil moisture indicator (SMI), sett treatment device (STD), production of FYM & jaggery production enterprise were finalized.
• An economic analysis on sugar recovery of co-canes (CoC 671, Co 6304, Co 7704 & Co 8021) in different states in India.
• Socio-economic impact of ICAR-SBI varieties and production technologies in different agro-climatic zones of India.

2016-17

• A feasibility study of recommended sugarcane production and protection technologies for promoting rural entrepreneurship.
• An economic analysis on sugar recovery of co-canes in different states in India to know the dynamics of sugar recovery.

2015-16

• Innovative training module for development of sugarcane farm leaders (SFL) for up-scaling sugarcane production and protection technologies in Tamil Nadu by implementing need-based capacity building programmes at 5 low productivity districts (Dharmapuri, vellore, Nagapattinam, Karur & Tirunelveli).

2014-15

• Application of ANOM and analysis of mean variance (ANOMV) with Shukla’s stability variance for identifying entries that have high mean and low stability variance.
• Economic impact assessment in sugarcane production system: field surveys conducted in 15 sugar mills to know acreage of Co 86032 in Tamil Nadu by utilizing dynamic research evaluation for management (DREAM) model of IFPRI Washington.

2013-14

• Economic impact assessment in sugarcane production system: field surveys conducted in nine sugar mills covering 200 farmers to know coverage of Co 86032, CoC 22 & CoC 24 in Tamil Nadu.

2012-13

• Economic impact assessment in sugarcane production system using time series data on area, production, sugar recovery, sugar, & jaggery prices for 20 years since 1993 for analysing sugar recovery’s improvement of Co 86032.
• Softwares & databases for sugarcane field experiments & information systems in sugarcane research in VISUAL BASIC were maintained and updated.

2011-12

• Analysis of means (ANOM) was used for checking performance of entries and test locations & their interactions using graphical means.
• Database of Personnel information system (PERMISNET), Institute Monitoring (ISMON), Scientific project management (SPM) and Research project files (RPF) were periodically uploaded to ICAR.
• Study on analysing cost & returns of different methods of cane cultivation.
• Economic impact assessment and efficiency change of cane varieties (pre- & post- start of Co 86032) and technologies in sugarcane production system using data envelopment analysis, total factor productivity (TFP), & stochastic frontier analysis; resulted Co 86032 had high average TFP.

2009-10

• Statistics Section was renamed as Statistics and Economics Section.

2008-09

• Field surveys data on eight sugar mills were analysed using Fishers’ discriminant function to identify variables that decide farmers’ preference or grading popular varieties Co 86032 & Co 99004.
• Technical efficiency of sugarcane farmers in Tamil Nadu studied through surveys in three agro-climatic zones where extensively (Co 86032) grown.

2007-08

Field surveys were analysed using Fishers’ discriminant function to identify variables that decide farmers’ preference or grading about a particular variety.
Maintenance/ updating of computer programs on Pay roll, wage Bill, Income Tax etc. as per the needs of administration section.
Updating databases on parents of Co-canes & AICRP trails.
Analysing multi-location variety evaluation trails using AMMI/ G×E Biplot techniques for identifying promising entries for advancement to the next stage of evaluation & selection.

2006-07

• Survey was conducted in two sugar mills (Bannari Amman Sugars Ltd, & Dharmapuri district Coop. Sugar Mills Ltd.) for finding farmers perception and coverage of Co 86032 w.r.t important factors yield, drought, pest & diseases incidences.
• Maintenance/ updating of computer programs on Pay roll, wage Bill, Income Tax etc. as per the needs of administration section; and a new E-Tax program installed in Cash & Bill section under FOXPRO environment.

2005-06

• Modification in program code of GRAINS Software was made for database compatibility with more recent versions of MS Access.
• Database on parents of Co-canes was updated used for computing co-ancestry coefficients of parents (whose pedigree were known) with appropriate softwares.
• Statistical models applied for analysing success or failure rates of Co 86032 in four sugar mills (MRK Coop. Sugar Mills, Cheyyar Coop. Sugar Mills, Sakti Sugar Mills, & Sivaganga and Pondichery Coop. Sugar Mills of Tamil Nadu) w.r.t yield, drought, pest & diseases.

2004-05

• Evaluation of statistical models for analysing success or failure rates of released sugarcane varieties in distinct factory zones of Tamil Nadu.
• Sugarcane Knowledge Bank was initiated, and it comprises available information on various facets of sugarcane research.
• Computer programs were developed for analysis and selections of diversity of Saccharum spontaneum collections using distinct sampling schemes.
• FORTRAN program was written for predicting of red rot reaction based on morphological features.

2003-04

• Studies declares the potential of sugarcane families revealed that the cross mean and RANK statistics of univariate and bivariate methods are sufficiently predicts the best cross through BLUE estimates and FORTRAN simulations.
• Databases on sugarcane crop genetic resources from dBase format were converted to MS-Access format and implemented in GRAINS.

2002-03

• GRAINS (Genetic Resources Information System)-Application package for management of databases on crop genetic resources updated from single user DOS environment to MS-Windows environment.
• Two computer packages: one for library and another for statistical calculations of meteorological observations were prepared in VISUAL BASIC.