Guda:

Flowering thick-stemmed sugar cane Photograph by: Ton Rul

Substitute:

Nala - Arundo donax

Adultrants:

adulteration of honey with cane sugar, acid- hydrolized cane sugar syrup or with honey obtained from feeding sugar to bees

Commercial value:

Sugar cane is a very greedy crop that soon exhausts the soil. In some countries the plant is intercropped with indigo or other leguminous plants between the rows when the canes are first planted. These legumes are turned into the soil while they are still green and succulent. This process has a very beneficial effect

Sugarcane is an important commercial crop of the country occupying around 3.8 million hectares with an annual cane production of around 270 million tonnes. It occupies about 2.8% of the cultivated land area and contributes about 7.5% to the agricultural production in the country. About 35 million farmers grow and depend on sugarcane for their livelihood. And an equal number of agricultural labourers earn their living by working in sugarcane farms.

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Guda - Saccharum officinarum - Poaceae

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Medicinal Plants