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2007-01-07 14:39:05 · 9 answers · asked by lee f 5 in Food & Drink Other - Food & Drink

AUSTIN, I can't imagine it so near New Mexico and all ???

2007-01-07 14:40:24 · update #1

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Sugarcane is a grass originally from tropical Southeast Asia (Hortus Third). The thick stalk stores energy as sucrose in the sap. From this juice, sugar is extracted by evaporating the water. Crystallized sugar was reported 2500 years ago in India. Around the eighth century A.D., Arabs introduced sugar to the Mediterranean and it was cultivated in Spain. It was among the early crops brought to the Americas by Spaniards.

Sugarcane was grown extensively in the Caribbean, and still is on some islands. In colonial times, sugar was a major product of the triangular trade of New World raw materials, European manufactures, and African slaves. France found its sugarcane islands so valuable it effectively traded Canada to Britain for their return of Guadeloupe, Martinique and St. Lucia at the end of the Seven Years' War. The Dutch similarly kept Suriname, a sugar colony in South America, instead of seeking the return of the New Netherlands (New Amsterdam). Cuban sugarcane produced sugar that received price supports from and a guaranteed market in the USSR; the dissolution of that country forced the closure of most of Cuba's sugar industry. Sugarcane remains an important part of the economy of Barbados, the Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Grenada, and other islands. The sugarcane industry is a major export for the Caribbean, but it is expected to collapse with the removal of European preferences by 2009.

Sugarcane production greatly influenced many tropical Pacific islands, most particularly Hawaii and Fiji. In these islands, sugar came to dominate the economic and political landscape after the indigenous societies had been invaded by Europeans and Americans, who promoted immigration from various Asian countries for workers to tend and harvest the crop. Sugar-industry policies eventually established the ethnic makeup of the island populations that now exist, profoundly affecting modern politics and society in the islands.

Brazil is a major grower of sugarcane, which is used to produce sugar and provide the alcohol used in making gasohol and biodiesel fuels.

2007-01-07 14:42:05 · answer #1 · answered by Joe D 6 · 1 0

Sugar comes from more than one source. There is the sugar beet and sugar cane to name two that are highly used today. Many tropical climates grow sugar cane as a cash crop. Here in the United States I know that sugar beets are grown as a cash crop in the northern and central plains for one place. Back many years ago before refined sugar was the norm sugar maples were taped and the sap boiled down to make syrup and boiled further to make cakes of maple sugar. White sugar was for company!

2007-01-07 14:58:42 · answer #2 · answered by Diana P 2 · 1 0

They must also grow sugar in Florida as well as Hawaii..........Sugar beets on the other hand are grown all over.

The Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers, Inc., was formed in 1970 by 100 farmers. Sugarcane has been an integral part of the Valley for more than 200 years. Today, 125 farmers grow sugarcane on more than 40,000 acres of farmland.

http://www.sugarcaneleague.org/

2007-01-07 14:52:39 · answer #3 · answered by LucySD 7 · 1 0

More details please!
But to answer as much of your question as possible, sugar is grown in two basic forms - cane sugar (grown in the south) is used for the table sugar, both white and brown. While the majority of the sweetener used in pre-processed foods is sugar made from sugar beets (grown further north).

2007-01-07 14:45:00 · answer #4 · answered by spur4eight 5 · 1 0

Yeast is a fungus and needs a grant of skill for its living and boom. Sugar substances this skill. (Your body also receives a lot of its skill from sugar and different carbohydrates.) Yeast can use oxygen to launch the skill from sugar (like you are able to) contained in the technique referred to as "respiration". So, the more effective sugar there is, the more effective energetic the yeast will be and the speedier its boom (as a lot as a particular factor - even yeast won't be able to advance in very solid sugar - alongside with honey). in spite of the undeniable fact that, if oxygen is short (like contained in the middle of a ball of dough), then yeast can nonetheless launch skill from sugar, yet in those circumstances, its byproducts are alcohol and carbon dioxide. it really is this carbon dioxide gasoline which makes the bubbles in dough (and for this reason in bread), causing the dough to upward push. Alcohol is a poison (for yeast besides as for individuals) and so the yeast isn't waiting to advance even as the alcohol content receives too extreme. because of this wine is by no ability more effective than about 12% alcohol.

2016-12-28 08:57:02 · answer #5 · answered by banegas 4 · 0 0

Sugar isn't grown in anything. It comes from many sources like sugar beets, sugar cane, and many artificial kinds are developed in labs.

2007-01-07 14:43:01 · answer #6 · answered by trog-mdr@sbcglobal.net 2 · 0 1

It's grown in Hawaii.

2007-01-07 14:40:59 · answer #7 · answered by JACQUELINE T 6 · 1 0

Hawaii? Yes, lot's of it

2007-01-07 14:40:53 · answer #8 · answered by Steve G 7 · 1 0

what it means ?
write a question clearly dear to get answer.

2007-01-07 14:41:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

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