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A sugarcane harvester. A sugarcane harvester is a large piece of agricultural machinery used to harvest and partially process sugarcane. [1] The machine, originally developed in the 1920s, remains similar in function and design to the combine harvester. Essentially a storage vessel on a truck with a mechanical extension, the machine cuts the ...
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A sugar cane cutter in Cuba during zafra. The zafra is the late summer or early autumn harvest; the term is common in countries with Arabic or Spanish influence. In the Caribbean, the term generally refers to the sugar cane harvest. [1] There, the zafra runs from January through May, [2] whereas in the Mediterranean it occurs in September to ...
Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of tall, perennial grass (in the genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar production. The plants are 2–6 m (6–20 ft) tall with stout, jointed, fibrous stalks that are rich in sucrose , [ 1 ] which accumulates in the stalk internodes .
During this time he also took pictures of demonstrations, sugar cane harvests and factory scenes. [2] Other less-known Fidel Castro images by Korda include shots of Castro staring warily at a tiger in a New York zoo, playing golf and fishing with Che Guevara, skiing and hunting in Russia, and with Ernest Hemingway .
Its stout stalks are rich in sucrose, a disaccharide sugar which accumulates in the stalk internodes. It originated in New Guinea, [1] and is now cultivated in tropical and subtropical countries worldwide for the production of sugar, ethanol and other products. S. officinarum is one of the most productive and most intensively cultivated kinds ...
Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida is an agricultural enterprise that harvests, transports and processes sugarcane grown primarily in Palm Beach County, Florida and markets the raw sugar and blackstrap molasses [1] through the Florida Sugar and Molasses Exchange.
Other sugar planters from South Carolina and established slave states soon joined him along the rich Manatee River valley on the western coast of today's central Florida. The sugar planters enslaved many people to clear the lands; plant, harvest and process sugarcane; and build the plantation houses, mills, and outbuildings.