The word "sugarcane" is a correct and usable form of written English.
You can use it whenever you want to refer to a type of grass that produces sugar. For example, "The sugarcane fields of southern India have been a major source of the world's sugar for centuries."
Only men in white aprons and chef hats manage the many stalls of the night market, known for its shellfish, meat kebabs, fruit, freshly pressed sugarcane juice and, of course, the local Zanzibar pizza.
We have used shipping pallets, chicken wire, basic tools and rakes, recycled five and 15-gallon containers, standard toilet seats, and sugarcane bagasse and dried grass.
It sits in an agricultural area that is hot, wet and green, where fertile soil permits the cultivation of sugarcane, oranges, coffee, and the raising of cattle.
The biggest producers of ethanol are agribusinesses or farmers' co-operatives growing maize (corn) in America and sugarcane in Brazil.
Marcos Jank, head of Brazil's sugarcane association, took to the conference stage in a yellow, green and blue shirt.
According to the American Sugar Alliance, a trade group based in Washington, DC, the average American eats 44 pounds (20kg) of sugar per year, which means the population cumulatively eats 25% more than the country can produce from sugarcane and beets.
The cause of his excitement is the demise on December 31st of import tariffs and tax credits that have long sheltered ethanol distilled from corn in the United States from the same stuff made from sugarcane in Brazil.
In Maharashtra, home to both India's commercial capital Mumbai and swathes of sugarcane fields, a 2005 law gives farmers with more than two children lower irrigation subsidies.
He thinks the rest of the gap could be filled with sugarcane bagasse 20,000MW could be added quickly and windpower.
Brazil has long been distilling biofuel from sugarcane to reduce its need for fossil-fuel petrol.
Tractors festooned with bright-coloured decorations pull trailers piled high with sugarcane.
