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unusual facts about Sugar Cane



Acrisol

Crops that can be successfully cultivated, if climate allows, include tea, rubber tree, oil palm, coffee and sugar cane.

Ada'a

Legumes and sugar cane are important cash crops; Ada'a produces the most teff, wheat and legumes in Misraq Shewa.

Cabreúva

The area is cultivated with sugar canes which gave the origin to its local economy for some decades, which received its nickname of the city, Terra da Pinga/Land of Pinga.

Fiji Labour Party

Speaking at three sugar cane farming settlements in Ba Province, he said that what the NFP really wanted was for the FLP to give them those seven seats, all of which are presently held by the FLP.

Gran Mastín de Borínquen

It was only during the last part of the 19th century that local recognition began with the overseer's of the Sugar Cane, Tobacco and Coffee plantations.

John Medley Wood

John Medley Wood (1 December 1827 Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England - 26 August 1915 Durban) was a South African botanist who contributed greatly to the knowledge of Natal ferns, is generally credited with the establishment of sugarcane mosaic virus immune Uba sugar cane in Natal and for his extensive collection of Natal plants.

Kayamb

Kayambas are made of reed (or sugar cane flower stems) and is filled with jequirity or canna seeds, it is shaken horizontally with both hands.

Marot

Mostly people are farmers in the area and the major crops are wheat, cotton, mustard and sugar cane.

Noah S. Sweat

According to William Safire, Sweat's nickname was derived from the phrase "sorghum top," a reference to the way in which his hair resembled a sugar cane tassel.

Oligonychus sacchari

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.

Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation

In practice, the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation will mostly be achieved by blending bioethanol, biomethanol, biodiesel and biogas (derived from sources such as palm oil, oilseed rape, cereals, sugar cane, sugar beet, and reprocessed vegetable oil) with fossil fuels.

Shirgaon, Sangli

Agriculture is one of the main sources of income, with the main cultivated crop being sugar cane, followed by peanuts and soya beans.


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Amauta cacica

The Sugar-cane Borer Moth (Amauta cacica) is a moth in the Castniidae family.

Aracaju

Oil wealth, sugar cane cultivation, and more recently tourism continue to stimulate its growing economy.

Billy Tauzin III

Tauzin bested a crowded field in the primary and faced Democratic challenger Charlie Melancon, a long-time lobbyist for the sugar cane industry, in the runoff.

Chamula

Chamula families kneel on the floor of the church with sacrificial items, stick candles to the floor with melted wax, drink ceremonial cups of Posh, artisanal sugar-cane-based liquor, Coca Cola or Pepsi, and chant prayers in an archaic dialect of Tzotzil.

Cocolo

In the Dominican Republic, "Cocolo" is used only to refer to Caribbean descendants who came to the cities of San Pedro de Macorís, Puerto Plata, and other areas to work on the docks and sugar cane plantations at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries.

Destilería Serrallés

The sugar cane plantation they built virtually became a company town, and eventually had its own rail line, workers' housing, transportation fleet, commissary, and private—later public—airport (Ponce's Mercedita Airport).

Glenville Lovell

Lovell was born in a Chattel house in Parish Land, Christ Church, Barbados and grew up around rich storytelling among the sugar cane workers.

Guatemala, Cuba

In the first half of the 20th century, the village was a sugar cane processing center owned and operated by the United Fruit Company and named in honor of one of the company's founders, Andrew W. Preston.

History of Guadeloupe

They came from the Coromandel Coast, Puducherry, Madras, Calcutta and Malabar, and were hired to work in the sugar cane fields.

Kidatu

The primary economic activity is the large Illovo sugar cane plantation and factory which produces 130,000 tons of sugar per year.

La Chonita Hacienda

La Chonita is a 200 + year old former hacienda which is still a working cacao and sugar cane farm along with some tourist services.

Mackay Railway

Mackay, about 1000 km north of Brisbane, is situated at the entrance of a fertile river valley, and was quickly developed for agriculture, especially sugar cane.

Máximo Macapobre

He was able to own and operate an "intosan" - the old system of milling sugar cane to produce sugar which was constructed in sitio Tipoo, Bato.

Misiones Province

Tea, citrus fruit and, in minor amounts, tobacco, sugar cane, rice and coffee are also cultivated in Misiones.

Monosodium glutamate

During fermentation, selected bacteria (coryneform bacteria) cultured with ammonia and carbohydrates from sugar beets, sugar cane, tapioca or molasses, excrete amino acids into the culture broth from where L-glutamate is isolated.

Neyraudia reynaudiana

Burma reed resembles several other tall grasses, including common reed (Phragmites communis), giant reed (Arundo donax), pampas grass (Cortaderia selloana) and sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum).

Perry Henzell

Henzell, whose ancestors included Huguenot glassblowers and an old English family who had made their fortune growing sugar on Antigua, grew up on the Caymanas sugar cane estate near Kingston.

Pitt Hornung

By buying out other, less successful sugar cane concessions which had sprung up in the region and transforming them into successful entities – including a concession at Marromeu - Pitt’s business went from strength to strength, and he established a sugar cane empire.

Saint Andrew, Barbados

The parish is named after the patron saint, Saint Andrew, who is also the basis of the name for Barbados' highest national award "The Order of Saint Andrew" and also the shape of the cross formed by two sugar cane stalks in the national Coat of Arms of Barbados.

Sugguna lanka

Sugar Cane, Maize, Betel Leaves, Kanda, Banana and Turmeric and also varieties of vegetables are also cultivated.

Taito Waqavakatoga

He is better known for his proactive role in organising the harvest of sugar cane in the Labasa and Seaqaqa districts, during a harvest boycott by farmers protesting the 1987 1987 military takeover by Sitiveni Rabuka.

Tatanua mask

Tatanua face masks are normally carved from lime wood and completed and decorated with fibres from sugar cane, wool and other animal hair.

Tavua District

Its main economy is sugar cane, although the establishment of Tavua township was the result of a gold mine in Vatukoula, which is in the interior of Viti Levu but easily accessible from Tavua.

The Price of Sugar

The documentary shows the poor working conditions in the sugar cane plantations, and political control exerted by the Vicini family to stifle efforts to change the situation.

Thunee

Ramsamy Naidoo, the sardar at the sugar cane estate of De Charmoy and Angel at La Mercy on the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast, and his friends are credited with inventing the exciting six-card game during 1872.

Tithal Beach

The main beach has several shops selling Indian snacks like Bhajiya, Dabeli, Bhel chaat, sweet corn roasted on charcoal and also freshly prepared sugar cane juice, coconut water and souvenirs.