Assertion: sugarcane | /r/HasProperty | grown
Facets:
value: commercially
type: MANNER
value: in india
type: LOCATION
value: outside of the amazon
type: LOCATION
value: mostly
type: DEGREE
value: from setts
type: OTHER
value: from cuttings
type: OTHER
value: since the rigvedic times
type: TEMPORAL
value: traditionally
type: OTHER
value: for making syrup
type: PURPOSE
value: broadly
type: DEGREE
value: interestingly
type: DEGREE
value: widely
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Why is sugarcane grown here?
text: Sugar also led to some industrialization of areas where sugar cane was grown.
text: Sugarcane is a widely grown crop in India.
text: Saccharum Officinarum is a member of the grass family (Poaceae) and is also broadly grown, offering around 70% of the world’s sugar.
text: Interestingly, sugarcane is grown for making syrup in the Deep South and the "Sugarcane Syrup Belt" stretches from Louisiana to Georgia.
text: Sugarcane is grown by replanting part of a mature cane stalk.
text: The disease has been a problem in almost all countries where sugarcane is grown.
text: Florida, Louisiana, and Texas are the only areas in the United States where sugarcane is grown commercially (Figure 1).
text: Brown rust of sugarcane, formerly known as common rust, is currently found almost everywhere sugarcane is grown.
text: General guidelines: Florida sugarcane is unlikely to suffer calcium deficiencies since this element is abundant in the soil-water environments where sugarcane is traditionally grown.
text: Sugar mills – typically located in tropical regions near where sugarcane is grown – crush the cane and produce raw sugar which is shipped to other factories for refining into pure sucrose.
text: Dr. K.T. Achaya has written in his authoritative book, “Indian Food: A Historical Companion” (OUP 1994) that while sugarcane was well known and grown in India since the Rigvedic times (c. 1500 BC), as Ikshu, and Kautilya (c. 300 BC) mentions a whole range of products from sugarcane, our canes were not as sweet as those from the Far East.
text: The states in which sugarcane is grown are Texas, Florida and Louisiana—with Louisiana ranking second in sugarcane production in the United States behind Florida.
text: The time it takes sugarcane to reach maturity varies between six and 24 months, depending on where it is being grown and the type of plant.
text: Sugarcane is grown year-round in southern Florida and harvested annually between October and late April.
text: Florida sugarcane growers on sandy soils sometimes do not use a soil insecticide at planting in the belief that fewer wireworms are in sand than muck soils where most sugarcane is grown.
text: To gain better insight into the microbial origin and dynamics, virgin soil samples were collected from seven plots where no sugarcane has been grown.
text: Florida growers producing sugarcane on mineral soils sometimes do not use a soil insecticide at planting in the belief that fewer wireworms are in mineral than organic soils where most sugarcane is grown.
text: Sugarcane is grown from setts or cuttings that are dropped into furrows.
text: However, while sugar cane is mostly grown outside of the Amazon, some groups allege that this cultivation displaces cattle ranching, encouraging deforestation in the Amazon.
text: Although sugar cane is commercially grown (not species plants but complex hybrids involving several different species) around the world for production of sugar (in the U.S. principally in Florida, Louisiana, Texas and Hawaii), it is also now beginning to enter the world of horticulture through cultivars featuring colorful stems and leaves.