Sugar cane
with the remainder made from sugar beet. As a tropical and subtropical crop, it requires plentiful rainfall for a period of more than six months per annum [...] The sucrose is extracted in mill factories to be processed into sugar or fermented to produce ethanol. The world’s sugar consumption is derived from sugar [...] genus, Saccharum , of the family Poaceae . In terms of production quantity, it is the world’s largest crop. Over time, sugar cane species were interbred and