Sugarcane

Sugarcane or Sugar cane (Saccharum) is a genre of between 6–37 species (depending on taxonomic interpretation) of tall grasses (family Poaceae, tribe Andropogoneae), native to warm temperate to steamy regions of the Old World. They have heavy, jointed fibrous stalks 2–6 m tall and sap rich in sugar. All the species interbreed, and the major commercial cultivars are complex hybrids.

Saccharum officinarum grown-up in Hawaii.There are 13 million hectares (32 million acres) of sugar cane plantations worldwide, with over 100 countries growing the crop. The peak twenty producing countries harvested 1200 million metric tons of sugar cane in 2002 , more than 6 times the amount of sugar beet produced. The major producers are Brazil, India, and China..