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 stalks ...

BASEL, Switzerland -- Syngenta announced today that it is developing a new technology to dramatically improve the cost efficiency of sugar cane planting in Brazil. Syngenta's innova-tion would reduce ...

At a time when farmers' overhead costs for fuel and fertilizers have risen, Louisiana farmers also are battling Mother Nature. Terrebonne, Lafourche and Assumption farmers are being spared the worst ...

You know that some of the sugar you purchase in stores is derived from sugar cane, right? You may also know that unless you live in a tropical climate, you wouldn't be able to grow sugar cane in your ...

ZACATEPEC, MEXICO - In Zacatepec, a flat town of mostly one-story houses in Mexico's central Morelos state, all roads lead to the giant sugar mill. The mill, named after revolutionary hero Emiliano ...

Executive Secretary, National Sugar Development Council (NSDC), Mr. Zacch Adedeji yesterday disclosed that the sector’s next direction is the growing of cane in the country. He stated that with the ...

The practice of burning sugarcane fields has been largely discontinued throughout the world because of concerns about air pollution, but farmers still do it in Florida’s main sugar-producing region ...

POINTE COUPEE PARISH, La. (WAFB) - Farmers are optimistic this year, saying it could be another record-breaking year for the state’s sugar cane industry. “Weather has been good so far although ...

Sugar cane farmer Lawrence Di Bella says that after 20 years of people talking about the potential of a local biofuel sector, ...