Sugarcane

Sugarcane (or sugar cane) is a Genus of plants. There are between 6 and 37 types of sugarcane.Sugarcane grows in warm and tropical climates. It first grew in Asia, but after the year 700 people started planting it in Africa and southern Europe. Later it spread to the Americas and Australia. Today the biggest producer is Brazil in South America. India in Asia is second biggest producer after Brazil.

Sugar Cane
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Sugarcane cut
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Liliopsida
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Genus:	Saccharum L.

Sugarcane stalks grow to between 2 and 6 meters tall. These stalks contain sugar, which is used to sweeten food and drinks. After the sugar has been taken out the remains of the stalks can be burned to generate heat and electricity. It can also be made into paper, cardboard and cutlery. This crop requires high temperature and high rainfall. In areas of low rainfall this crop is cultivated with the help of irrigation. Black soil or alluvial soil is the best for this crop. Sugarcane requires a large amount of water. As such, holding deep soil is required. As this crop absorbs nutrient matter from the soil, compost manure and chemical fertilizers are used. It requires 75-100cm rainfall.

Sugarcane juice can be made by pressing the stalks in a machine. It is often sold in the streets in some countries. It can contain disease.

Sugarcane Media

• Saccharum officinarum - Köhler–s Medizinal-Pflanzen-125.jpg

  Saccharum officinarum

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  Sugarcane is the most widely produced primary crop in the world

• Map showing centers of origin of Saccharum officinarum in New Guinea, S. sinensis in China, and S. barberi in India.png

  Map showing centers of origin of Saccharum officinarum in New Guinea, S. sinensis in southern China and Taiwan, and S. barberi in India; dotted arrows represent Austronesian introductions

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  The westward diffusion of sugarcane in pre-Islamic times (shown in red), in the medieval Muslim world (green), and in the 15th century by the Portuguese on the Madeira archipelago, and by the Spanish on the Canary Islands archipelago (islands west of Africa, circled by violet lines)

• The Mill Yard - Ten Views in the Island of Antigua (1823), plate V - BL.jpg

  Lithograph of sugarcane being ground using a windmill on a sugar plantation in the British colony of Antigua, 1823

• Cane cutters, Jamaica, 1891.jpg

  A sugar plantation on the island of Jamaica in the late 19th century

• Old-fashioned Indian Sugar=cane Press.jpg

  Indian sugarcane press, circa 1905

• Tropenmuseum Royal Tropical Institute Objectnumber 3581-33h Ingekleurde litho voorstellende de oo (crop).jpg

  A 19th-century lithograph by Theodore Bray showing a sugarcane plantation: On the right is the "white officer", the European overseer. Slave workers toil during the harvest. To the left is a flat-bottomed vessel for cane transportation.

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  Sugarcane plantation, Mauritius

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  Sugarcane plantation in Bangladesh

• MyanmarJaggery.webm

  Non-centrifugal cane sugar (jaggery) production near Inle Lake (Myanmar), crushing and boiling stage

• A video of Sugarcane juice extraction.ogv

  A video of sugarcane juice extraction