sugarcane
Noun
Meaning
sugarcane (usually uncountable, plural sugarcanes)
Alternative spelling of sugar cane
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' "1619 Project" noted last year, sugarcane farming has historically been one of the most exploitative and grueling types of farm work in the nation's history; much of the work used to be done by slaves.
About 80 percent of sucrose is derived from sugarcane, the rest almost all from sugar beets.
According to the World CIA Factbook, wood pulp and sugarcane were the largest exports of Swaziland until the wood pulp producer closed in January 2010.
Apart from sugarcane, the government also plans to use surplus rice lying with Food Corporation of India and maize in States where maize production is in surplus for producing ethanol from coming ethanol supply year (November to December).
Along the banks of the river, the presence of swamps and lakes provide a rich growing area for crops such as legumes, chillies, mustard, sesame, sugarcane, and jute.
But GuySuCo had disclosed that some 17,000 varieties of sugarcane, which represented billions of projected revenues, were destroyed by the squatters.