The largest crop in the world - the harvest of sugar cane Bashny.Net

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Nowadays, we are used to treat sugar rather negative, so that you may be surprised that the world gather each year in the biggest crop is sugar cane, compared with all the other cultures.

The point is not the amount of cane harvested and in its prevalence: in 2010, he was grown on an area of ​​about 23, 8 million hectares in 90 countries around the world, all for the year were produced 1.69 billion tons of sugar.

Sugar cane is grown in tropical and subtropical regions. The leading sugar producer is Brazil, followed by India, China, Thailand, Pakistan and Mexico.

Of course, as sugarcane not only need to make cookies and candies - sugar used in the production of ethanol. For example, in Brazil, ethanol made from sugar cane on a large scale.

via factroom.ru