Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of tall, perennial grass (in the genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar production. The plants are 2–6 m (6–20 ft) tall with stout, jointed, fibrous stalks that are rich in sucrose, [1] which accumulates in the stalk internodes.

Sugar plantations in the Caribbean were a major part of the economy of the islands in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Most Caribbean islands were covered with sugar cane fields and mills for refining the crop.

2021年6月18日 · The cultivation of sugar cane moved steadily eastward across the Pacific, spreading to the adjacent Solomon Islands, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, and ultimately to Polynesia. Cultivation of sugar cane also moved westward into continental Asia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and then Northern India.

2025年1月28日 · Sugarcane, (Saccharum officinarum), perennial grass of the family Poaceae, primarily cultivated for its juice from which sugar is processed. Most of the world’s sugarcane is grown in subtropical and tropical areas. The plant is also grown for biofuel production, especially in Brazil, as the canes

2021年7月6日 · São Tomé and Principe were really the first European colonies to develop large-scale sugar plantations employing a sizeable workforce of African slaves. The system was then applied on an even larger scale to the new colony of Portuguese Brazil from the 1530s.

2023年7月14日 · The Spanish brought enslaved people from Africa to grow and process the sugarcane. In the early 1520s, the first revolt of enslaved Africans in the Americas took place in Santo Domingo; it started on a sugarcane plantation …

The sugar cane plant was the main crop produced on the numerous plantations throughout the Caribbean during the 18th and 19th centuries. These plantations produced 80–90 per cent of the sugar ...

Sugar cane cultivation best takes place in tropical and subtropical climates; consequently, sugar plantations in the United States that utilized slave labor were located predominantly along the Gulf coast, particularly in the southern half of Louisiana. Over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Caribbean became the ...

2025年1月1日 · plantation, a usually large estate in a tropical or subtropical region that is cultivated by unskilled or semiskilled labour under central direction.

Sugar plantations were large agricultural estates primarily focused on the cultivation and processing of sugarcane, which became a significant part of the economy in the Caribbean and parts of the American South.