The feasibility of preservative treatment of golla cane {Daemonorops
jenkinsiana (Griff.) Mart.}, by soaking method was tested in the present study.
Cane samples of 1 m, 2 m, and 3 m long were soaked with 10% borax and boric
acid solution. The study revealed that adequate dry salt retention (DSR) in the
above samples could be obtained in 3 days, 4 days, and 5 days respectively. The
DSR values obtained were much higher than those of the specification (4 kgm’3)
of Indian Standard. Dry cane (12.87% me) samples up to 3 m to 4 m long could
be treated easily within 5 days, but the same dimension of green cane (150%
me) samples needed 8 days. DSR value of air-dried sample was about 6 times
higher than that of the green samples.