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  2. Sugarcane - Wikipedia

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    Grown in tropical and subtropical regions, sugarcane is the world's largest crop by production quantity, totalling 1.9 billion tonnes in 2020, with Brazil accounting for 40% of the world total. Sugarcane accounts for 79% of sugar produced globally (most of the rest is made from sugar beets).

  3. List of largest producing countries of agricultural commodities

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    Along with climate and corresponding types of vegetation, the economy of a nation also influences the level of agricultural production. Production of some products is highly concentrated in a few countries, China, the leading producer of wheat and ramie in 2013, produces 95% of the world's ramie fiber but only 17% of the world's wheat. Products ...

  4. Sugar industry - Wikipedia

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    Sugarcane is used in the distillation of rum. Several countries subsidize sugar. [1] Globally in 2018, around 185 million tons of sugar was produced, led by India with 35.9 million tons, followed by Brazil and Thailand. [2] There are more than 123 sugar-producing countries, but only 30% of the produce is traded on the international market.

  5. Sugar industry of Cuba - Wikipedia

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    Meanwhile, production in Cuba grew from almost one million tons to over five million tons in 1925. Cuba remained unchallenged as the world's largest sugar producer until the 1960s, when the Soviet Union, Brazil, and India increased their production to comparable levels. However, whereas most of the sugar in those countries was consumed ...

  6. List of sugar refineries - Wikipedia

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    Sugar factory with sugar cane in Tandjong Tirto, Jogjakarta: Demak Ijo Sugar Factory: Inactive: View of the Demak Idjo sugar factory, boiler house and workshops: Cebongan Sugar Factory: Inactive: The Tjebongan sugar factory in the vicinity of Yogyakarta. The name and date 1879 on the factory building.

  7. History of sugar - Wikipedia

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    The extraction of sugar cane juice from the sugarcane plant, and the subsequent domestication of the plant in tropical India and Southeast Asia sometime around 4,000 BC. The invention of manufacture of cane sugar granules from sugarcane juice in India a little over two thousand years ago, followed by improvements in refining the crystal ...

  8. Agriculture in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    In 2018, the Northeast was in 3rd place among the regions that most produce sugar cane in the country. Brazil is the world's largest producer, with 672.8 million tons harvested this year. The Northeast harvested 45.7 million tons, 6.8% of national production. Alagoas is the largest producer, with 33.3% of Northeastern production (15.2 million ...

  9. Agriculture in Bolivia - Wikipedia

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    In 2018, Bolivia produced 9.6 million tons of sugarcane, 2.9 million tons of soy, 1.2 million tons of maize, 1.1 million tons of potato, 1 million tons of sorghum, 700 thousand tons of banana, 541 thousand tons of rice, 301 thousand tons of wheat, in addition to smaller yields of other agricultural products, such as tangerine, cassava, orange, beans, sunflower seed, cotton etc. . [4]