● Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative aims at cultivating sugarcane mainly by changing the way the inputs and methods are used. ● It majorly involves ◦ Less use of seeds ◦ Less user of water ◦ Optimum utilization of fertilizers and land ◦ It aims at reducing the input cost, Hence Statement 1 is Correct. ● Its basic premise is to obtain “more with less” in agriculture. it brings down the cost up to 75%. ● It reduces plant mortality rate; helps in increasing the length and weight of cane. ● There is the scope of intercropping and the drip irrigation method can also be used . Hence Statement 2 and 4 are correct. ● However, SSI is a farmer-driven method; and its advantages are dependent on the efforts of the cultivator himself rather.