SRA29A FACTS

SRA29A was first released to growers in the Bundaberg, Isis and Maryborough districts in Spring 2021.

It is resistant to Fiji leaf gall, leaf scald and mosaic. It is intermediate-resistant to Pachymetra.

SRA29A is a variety recommended for Bundaberg, Isis and Maryborough.

This variety achieved good productivity in trials across a range of soil types with high tonnes of cane and average CCS compared with the major standards in the region.

It is intermediate to red rot and smut. Monitoring for smut, particularly in older ratoon blocks, should be a part of crop management practices.

It achieved an overall Tonnes Sugar per Hectare (TSH) of 15.8 after the 2014 series FATs (harvested 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018) and 2016 series FATs (harvested 2017, 2018 and 2019). This compares with 15.0 TSH for Q240 A and Q208 A in the same trials.