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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 .
Sugar Cane Alley (French title: La Rue Cases-Nègres) is a 1983 film directed by Euzhan Palcy.It is set in Martinique in the 1930s, when black people working sugarcane fields were still treated harshly by their white employers.
Specimens of this cane were sent to Calcutta, India in 1796 [4] from where specimens were sent to Durban, South Africa to help establish the sugar industry there. From Durban specimens were sent to Mauritius in the late 1800s where they adopted the name Uba due to arriving in a water soaked box that had washed off the boxes' original wording ...
Racecourse sugar mill, 2016. The Racecourse Mill is a sugar mill located in Racecourse, Mackay, Queensland and is one of the largest sugar refineries in Australia. Other sugar cane mills located in the Mackay Region include; Marian Sugar Mill, Pleystowe Sugar Mill, Farleigh Mill and Plane Creek Mill at Sarina. Pleystowe Mill was the oldest ...
Sugar cane grew wild in Fiji and was used as thatch by the Fijians for their houses (bures). The first attempt to make sugar in Fiji was on Wakaya Island in 1862 but this was a financial failure. With the cotton boom of the 1860s there was little incentive to plant a crop that required high capital outlay but after a slump in cotton prices in ...
The principal products of the system were: sugar, tobacco and tea. [2] The main characteristics of the cultivation system were that the government organized the production of sugar cane, which it sold to sugar manufacturers. In turn the sugar manufacturers were obliged to sell most of their raw sugar back to the government at fixed prices.
The main plant host for O. sacchari is sugar cane, but it also been observed on other grasses, including Bambusa arundinacea, Setaria italica, Sorghum arundinaceum, Sorghum halepense and Sorghum vulgare, and an orchid of the genus Dendrobium. [2] [3]
Sugar Cane was a Eurodisco group with Latin disco and Caribbean musical style. They had several singles released in the late 1970s. They had several singles released in the late 1970s. They found greater success with their version of the Bobby Bloom hit " Montego Bay " which is what the group is more likely to be remembered for.