TANUMAN NI JUAN (Bulan Plantation): SUGARCANE PLANTATION (Brgy. Aquino "Uyango", Bulan)

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Sugar Cane Is a Cure for Hiccups

Some people claim that the hiccups can be cured with sugar from sugar cane. They claim that you need to swallow one teaspoon of sugar, dry, from sugar cane. Then you will stop hiccupping (Sugar Cane Fun Facts).

Hydration of Sugar Cane Was Won with a Poker Game

Charles Spreckles bought dry land in Puuene, Hawaii. He bought the land at a cheap price because the Hawaiians thought it was cursed. He could grow sugar cane there, but he needed water. After winning a game of poker against King Kalakaua of Hawaii, Spreckles was allowed to irrigate 50 million gallons of water per day from Haiku, Hawaii to Puuene, Hawaii (Maui Hawaii Sugar Cane).

Commercial Sugar Cane Is Made from Stalks

Sugar cane can be grown from seeds. However, all commercial sugar cane is grown from stalks. This is known as ratoon cropping. The good points about ratoon cropping are that the ratoons mature quicker than sugar cane planted from seed and the cost of cultivation is less. Yet, there are also disadvantages. These are thinner crops, low sugar content, and

the increased risks of pests and diseases (Mundra).

Just Because It's Brown, Doesn't Mean It's Pure

Sugar might come from pure cane sugar or it might be beet sugar (meaning it comes from the roots). Brown cane sugar is naturally brown. However, beet sugar is not naturally brown. Instead, it is sprayed with a brown cane molasses spray. The sugar is only pure if the package reads "pure cane sugar (Sugar Cane Fun Facts)."

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History of the sugar and the world economy would look drastically different without the presence of sugarcane, incredible plant that drove many changes in our modern history and forged the basis of the modern cuisine. With its incredible ability to create and store sucrose in large quantities, sugarcane went from unknown wild species of Asian perennial true grasses to the world’s largest cultivated crop.

Mrs. Evelyn Galido is a 54-year-old widowed wife. She has been planting different kinds of plant to her land. Along with her childhood years, her parent was cultivating lands too. As her parent past away, she continued what they have thought to her. By this time of her age, she said that almost more that 4 decades now that she’s planting crops.

Along with it, our attentions were caught when we saw some sugarcane on her land. Almost half a hectare of land it covers. Sad to say, but few of the plants were still on its root because some are already harvested and some are being attacked by pest. She has three types of sugarcane, the violet, black and the green, but the violet was above of all.

Production of Sugarcane

In planting sugarcane, both the stem and the top part of the plant are able to grow but Mrs. Evelyn told us that it is wisely to plant its top part so that the plant will just continue grow its stem and less time consuming. This plant can grow on rainy or in sunny weather.

Its takes 6 months for it to be able to harvest after planting. She said that good timing of harvest is a sunny weather because the juice of the plant is sweet unlike in rainy days the juice is not so sweet and you can taste lot more of water. She plant this not for sale but for family consumption only especially her grandchildren likes chewing sugarcane and extracting its juice that they consider this as a candy on their mount.