A giant tropical grass domesticated in New Guinea whose stem is nearly a fifth sugar by weight. The world's largest crop by tonnage, sugarcane built the plantation economies of the Caribbean and Brazil on enslaved labor, and remains the source of most of the world's sugar and much of its ethanol fuel. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Era (category) Sugarcane
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Sugarcane is consistently named among the crops diffused westward through the medieval Islamic world during the Arab Agricultural Revolution.
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- lead: a species of tall, perennial grass
- lead: used for sugar production
- lead: sugarcane reeds used to make pens, mats, screens, and thatch
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S. officinarum was first domesticated in New Guinea and the islands east of the Wallace Line by Papuans; beginning around 6,000 BP, several strains were selectively bred from the native Saccharum robustum.
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Grown in tropical and subtropical regions, sugarcane is the world's largest crop by production quantity, totalling 1.9 billion tonnes in 2020, with Brazil accounting for 40% of the world total.
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It is an especially important pest of bananas, and it can be found on coconut, avocado, coffee, sugarcane, other grasses, and ornamentals.
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