A shoot sprouting from a plant base, as in the banana, pineapple, or sugarcane.
v.ra·tooned, ra·toon·ing, ra·toons
v.intr.
To produce or grow as a ratoon.
v.tr.
To propagate (a crop) from ratoons.
[Spanish retoño, sprout, from retoñar, to sprout : re-, again (from Latin; see re-) + otoñar, to grow in autumn (from otoño, autumn, from Latin autumnus; see autumn).]
Naturally, it did not all mature at once, but I had planted in such succession that I could grind for nine months steadily, while more was being planted and the ratoons were springing up.
Patrick Wamugunda, a rice farmer, says that the government assisted in curbing the quelea menace in the main season, where planting is done in July and August and harvesting starts from November and December.The current season called ratoon comes after the main crop has been harvested.
With a national average production of 54 metric tons (MT) per hectare, a farm in Negros harvested 148 MT on the first harvest and 160 MT on the first ratoon," Pinol said.
It was followed by the ratoon crops ([approximately equal to]12 months), with cuts made on September 17, 2010 (2nd cut), September 30, 2011 (3rd cut), and August 20, 2012 (4th cut).
The field experiments of newly planted and ratoon cane were carried out in February 2014 to January 2015 and February 2015 to January 2016 respectively using the main cultivars, ROC22, ROC25, Yuetang 83-88, Yuetang 93-159, Yuetang 00-236 and Yingyu 91-59.
But growing sugarcane on an acre of land in Sindh costs somewhere between Rs80,000 and Rs105,000, depending on whether the farmer has opted for ratoon cropping, which grows from the stubble of the preceding season's crop.
Sorghum was conducted for two crop cycles (plant and ratoon); the first one harvested in February 2013 and the second one in June 2013, totaling 246 days.