Sugar Cane, Caña
Saccharum Andropogoneae | Familiy: Poaceae
Water:
Plentiful
Sun:
Plentiful
Challenge: -
Substratum: On many soils ranging
Fertilisation: Chicken manure
Temp.: Tropical and subtropical Companion: -
Non-Companion:
Spacing: In rows 1.80 m aside to create probable cultivation and
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Description: A tall perennial true grass and used for sugar production. It has stout jointed fibrous stalks that are rich in the sugar sucrose, which accumulates in the stalk internodes. The plant is two to six metres tall. Sucrose, extracted and purified in specialized mill factories, is used as raw material in human food industries or is fermented to produce ethanol. Ethanol is produced on a large scale by the Brazilian sugarcane industry. Sugarcane is the world‘s largest crop by production quantity. Other than sugar, products derived from sugarcane include falernum, molasses, rum, cachaça (a traditional spirit from Brazil), bagasse and ethanol. In some regions, people use sugarcane reeds to make pens, mats, screens, and thatch. Sugarcane is a cash crop, but it is also used as livestock fodder. It is one of the most efficient photosynthesizers in the plant kingdom. It is a C4 plant, able to convert up to one percent of incident solar energy into biomass. It can be used as a biofuel alternative to gasoline, and is widely used in cars in Brazil. A greener alternative to burning bagasse for the production of electricity is to convert bagasse into biogas. Technologies are being developed to use enzymes to transform bagasse into advanced biofuel and biogas. Stalk: A mature stalk is typically composed of 11–16% fiber, 12–16% soluble sugars, 2–3% non-sugars, and 63–73% water. Sugarcane crops can produce over 15 kilograms of cane per square meter of sunshine.
Medicine: Both roots as well as stems are utilized in Ayurvedic medication to deal with skin as well as urinary tract infections, along with bronchitis, heart conditions, lack of milk production, cough, anaemia, as well as constipation. Several texts suggest its use for jaundice as well as low blood pressure level. Sugar paste have been traditionally used to pack wounds and help restorative healing. Native: To South Asia and Melanesia Cultivars: Cultivated in 120 nations all over the world, with Australia and Brazil being the leading suppliers. A sugarcane crop is sensitive to the climate, soil type, irrigation, fertilizers, insects, disease control, varieties, and the harvest period. The average yield of cane stalk is 60–70 tonnes per hectare per year. Different species likely originated in different locations, with Saccharum barberi originating in India and Saccharum edule and Saccharum officinarum in New Guinea. The genus Saccharum has got five essential varieties viz., Saccharum Officinarum, S.Sinense, S.barberi, S.robustum, S.spontanuem.
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Sowing: Although sugarcanes produce seeds, modern stem cutting has become the most common reproduction method. Each cutting must contain at least one bud. Sugar cane plants are spread by planting parts of the stem. Water: With a plentiful supply of water, for a continuous period of more than six to seven months each year, either from natural rainfall or through irrigation. Climate: Grows in the tropical and subtropical regions with a minimum of 60 centimetres of annual moisture. The crop does not tolerate severe frosts. sugarcane crop is found up to 1,600 m close to the equator in countries such as Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Both plentiful sunshine and water supplies increase cane production. This has made desert countries with good irrigation facilities such as Egypt as some of the highest yielding sugarcane cultivating regions. Soil: Sugarcane can be grown on many soils ranging from highly fertile well drained mollisols, through heavy cracking vertisols, infertile acid oxisols, peaty histosols to rocky andisols. Fertilisation: Fertilize the sugar cane with nitrogen. Since sugar cane is a type of grass, it thrives on nitrogen-rich fertilizers. You can fertilize the sugar cane plants with standard grass fertilizer, or go for an organic www.PermaTree.org, Herbarium Page 14