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About Sugar Cane

Uses of Cane

Growing Cane

Refining Cane

Producers

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On average it takes between 12 months and 2 years to plant and harvest a crop and some types can grow nearly as tall as a house, but this delicious food is best known as the white grains found in a bowl on nearly every dining table in the world and used to sweeten nearly everything we eat.

Cane sugar is one of the oldest cultivated crops in the world, but it is believed to have started life as type of grass some 3000 years ago in New Guinea.

As it requires a tropical climate to thrive it is mainly found in equatorial zones, but it can be found as far north as Southern Spain.

There are many varieties of sugar cane and it has a surprising number of uses many of which will be described in our SugarWeb pages, but if you want to know more just drop us a line.