Sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum), a tropical perennial grass native to Papua New Guinea and Southeast Asia, is one of the world’s most important economic food and energy crops. Its soaring ...

The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo Maui’s state Highways Division is looking to add at least 10 workers to help clear out thick cane grass along the road and glycine — an increasingly ...

During the 9th and 10th centuries, sugar cane was grown extensively in southern Europe and soon spread to Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean and Zanzibar in East Africa. The botanical was first ...