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Sugarcane in sentence

19 examples of Sugarcane in a sentence

And the waste product from them after you extract the juice from the sugarcane is called "bagasse."
Well, unfortunately, they didn't have sugarcane and they didn't have cassava, but that didn't stop us.
Compared to the sugarcane charcoal, where we have to teach people how to form it into briquettes and you have the extra step of cooking the binder, this comes pre-briquetted.
Ironically, today, it's also responsible for the over half a million acres of the endless river of sugarcane.
Today this region is the very epicenter of economic development in my country, where natural habitat and wildlife populations are rapidly being eradicated by several different threats, including once again cattle ranching, large sugarcane and soybean plantations, poaching, roadkill, just to name a few.
When you drive around and you find dead tapirs along the highways and signs of tapirs wandering around in the middle of sugarcane plantations where they shouldn't be, and you talk to kids and they tell you that they know how tapir meat tastes because their families poach and eat them, it really breaks your heart.
And it was an experiment with sugarcane farmers.
The Nellore cluster in Andhra Pradesh, for example, has paddy, tobacco, groundnut, mango, and sugarcane farms.
Today, biofuels account for 20% of global production of sugarcane, 9% of oilseeds and coarse grains, and 4% of sugar beet.
In Pakistan’s Punjab Province, over-pumping is lowering the water table by up to a half-meter (20 inches) per year, threatening future food and water security and making thirsty crops like sugarcane and rice tougher to grow.
Powerful sugarcane cooperatives, led by major UPA supporters, supposedly drove the government to fix extravagant prices and write off sugar farmers’ bad debts, leading to over-production.
The resulting increase in sugar prices has led producers to seek more land on which to grow sugarcane.
Such actions benefit American sugar producers – particularly a small group of wealthy sugarcane growers, largely in Florida, who offer generous campaign contributions to the relevant politicians.
For another, US policy has a direct negative impact on one of its closest neighbors, Mexico, where sugarcane is produced by hundreds of thousands of small, mostly poor farmers – people who, deprived of their livelihoods, may end up turning to far less constructive ways to make ends meet.
Over the last century, the Everglades – the unique wetlands system in southern Florida that includes a national park – has shrunk to half its original size, because the US Army Corps of Engineers, responding to demands by the state’s sugarcane industry, diverted water inflows.
If the US sugar industry had to operate in a true free-market system, it would quickly find that it is not profitable to grow a lot of – or any – sugarcane on valuable South Florida land.
Moreover, whereas traditional bioenergy feedstocks such as acacia, sugarcane, sweet sorghum, managed forests, and animal waste pose sustainability challenges, researchers at the University of Oxford are now experimenting with the more water-efficient succulent plants.
Several sorts of liquors, extracted from the sugarcane, were handed about by the servants who attended.
While supper was preparing, orders were given to show them the city, where they saw public structures that reared their lofty heads to the clouds; the marketplaces decorated with a thousand columns; fountains of spring water, besides others of rose water, and of liquors drawn from the sugarcane, incessantly flowing in the great squares, which were paved with a kind of precious stones that emitted an odor like that of cloves and cinnamon.