Crops

Sugarcane

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General Reference

Agriculture and Farming Atlas. "Sugarcane." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://agriculture.interactiveatlas.org/crops/sugarcane.

APA Style

Agriculture and Farming Atlas. (n.d.). Sugarcane. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://agriculture.interactiveatlas.org/crops/sugarcane

BibTeX

@misc{agricultureandfarmingatlas-sugarcane,
  author = {Agriculture and Farming Atlas},
  title = {Sugarcane},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://agriculture.interactiveatlas.org/crops/sugarcane},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

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.

Facts

Scientific Name

Saccharum officinarum 1

Crop Class

Sugar 1

Domestication Region

New Guinea 1

Domesticated When (Circa)

circa 6000 BC 1

Sources

1. Sugarcane (Wikipedia)

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