The term sugar refers to a set of species of plants of the family of Poaceae and the genus Saccharum. They are grown for their stems, which is extracted from sugar. With an annual production volume of more than 1.7 billion tons, these are the first crops globally, with nearly 23% of the total mass produced in agriculture in the world.
The juice of the trunk is the main source of sugar. After harvesting the cane, passes under shredders blades, then move to the mill. This juice is debugged by a series of filters, and then subjected to a fining treatment and hence is placed in vacuum cooking tanks, wherein the juice is concentrated, and finally, crystallized sugar juice. Once crystallized sugar, remaining water is removed thus leaving the common white sugar that is commonly known.
Description
Sugarcane is a large grass herbaceous tropical port reed, with a height ranging from 2.5 to 6m. Rods having a diameter of 1.5 to 6 cm, are full. The leaves are alternate, are divided into two opposing lines and a blade of about 1 m long 2 to 10 cm wide. They are ten in number on the growing plants, the lower part of the stem gradually stripping as the lower leaves wither.
The inflorescence is a panicle terminal fifty centimeters to a meter long. In culture, the cane is usually cut before flowering.
Cultivation
The cane is a crop of tropical and subtropical areas of the world. Requires adequate water and soil to grow well. This plant assimilates solar radiation very well, having an efficiency close to 2% conversion of the incident energy into biomass.
Sugarcane requires water. Its growth period varies between 11 and 17 months, depending on the variety of cane and the area. Requires nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and some trace elements for fertilization. In saline areas is added sulfur to control the sodium .
The cane can be harvested by hand or machine. Manual harvesting is based on people with machete or rulas that cut the stems (usually after the plant burned to streamline the work) and chorras organized for transport.
Use
Sugar cane crop, which is produced cane sugar, cane sugar syrup, molasses, rum, and wax. Several parts of the plant can also be eaten fresh or cooked as such. The stems can also squeeze juice and make a liqueur. Sugar cane is also traditionally been used as a medicinal plant a variety of ailments.
Sugar cane stalks which the liquid has been removed can be used as fuel or as a source of fiber of paper or paperboard production. Plant is also made of pencils, pads, screens and a thatched roof. Sugar cane is also used for ornamental plant, and the addition of dried panicles are used as decorations and as parts of floral arrangements, often colored.
Sugarcane Farming in the Philippines
Negros cane farming part 1
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Negros cane farming part 2
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Negros cane farming part 3
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Description
Sugarcane is a large grass herbaceous tropical port reed, with a height ranging from 2.5 to 6m. Rods having a diameter of 1.5 to 6 cm, are full. The leaves are alternate, are divided into two opposing lines and a blade of about 1 m long 2 to 10 cm wide. They are ten in number on the growing plants, the lower part of the stem gradually stripping as the lower leaves wither.
The inflorescence is a panicle terminal fifty centimeters to a meter long. In culture, the cane is usually cut before flowering.
Cultivation
The cane is a crop of tropical and subtropical areas of the world. Requires adequate water and soil to grow well. This plant assimilates solar radiation very well, having an efficiency close to 2% conversion of the incident energy into biomass.
Sugarcane requires water. Its growth period varies between 11 and 17 months, depending on the variety of cane and the area. Requires nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and some trace elements for fertilization. In saline areas is added sulfur to control the sodium .
The cane can be harvested by hand or machine. Manual harvesting is based on people with machete or rulas that cut the stems (usually after the plant burned to streamline the work) and chorras organized for transport.
Use
Sugar cane crop, which is produced cane sugar, cane sugar syrup, molasses, rum, and wax. Several parts of the plant can also be eaten fresh or cooked as such. The stems can also squeeze juice and make a liqueur. Sugar cane is also traditionally been used as a medicinal plant a variety of ailments.
Sugar cane stalks which the liquid has been removed can be used as fuel or as a source of fiber of paper or paperboard production. Plant is also made of pencils, pads, screens and a thatched roof. Sugar cane is also used for ornamental plant, and the addition of dried panicles are used as decorations and as parts of floral arrangements, often colored.
Sugarcane Farming in the Philippines
Negros cane farming part 1
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Negros cane farming part 2
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Negros cane farming part 3
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