Sugar cane??

Question

Where did sugar cane originate?
How old is the plant?
What country, or region was the first to cultivate sugar cane?
Where did sugar cane go when it left its place of origin?
What are a few continents that grow sugar cane?
What type of climate does sugar cane need to grow?
What are a few countries that sugar cane still grows in today?
When did sugar cane come to the Americas?
Who brought the sugar cane to the Americas?
In the Americas, where is sugar cane grown?
What are some of the many products sugar cane, is used to make taste better?

Please help me out, I have a project due tomorrow, and I cant find anything! If you can at least answer of my questions thank you. Dont answer the same questions twice. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The process of making sugar by evaporating juice from sugar cane developed in India around 500 BC. Sugar cane, a tropical grass, probably originated in New Guinea. During prehistoric times its culture spread throughout the Pacific Islands and into India. By 200 BC producers in China had begun to grow it too. Westerners learned of sugar cane in the course of military expeditions into India. Nearchos, one of Alexander the Great's commanders, described it as "a reed that gives honey without bees".

About 200 countries grow the crop to produce 1,324 million tons (more than six times the amount of sugar beet produced). As of the year 2005, the world's largest producer of sugar cane by far is Brazil. Uses of sugar cane include the production of sugar, Falernum, molasses, rum, cachaça (the national spirit of Brazil) and ethanol for fuel. The bagasse that remains after sugarcane crushing is used to provide both heat energy, used in the mill, and electricity, which is typically on-sold to the consumer electricity grid.

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Answer 2

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Answer 3

This may help with your questions, just click on it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Cane#History