Tissue Culture Technician Marge Ortega works in the Tissue Culture Transfer Room separating clumps of sugar cane plants at the Hawaii Agriculture Research Center in Kunia. The 80-acre farm had been a ...

You know that some of the sugar you purchase in stores is derived from sugar cane, right? You may also know that unless you live in a tropical climate, you wouldn't be able to grow sugar cane in your ...

LAFAYETTE, LA — “We’re growing cane at the northernmost latitude here in Louisiana”, Wilson Judice, an agronomist for the American Sugarcane League, told me after walking out of a truck full of ...

According to the state Department of Agriculture’s “Statewide Agricultural Land Use Baseline” study, released back in 2015, prior to the sugar cane industry shutting down Maui had 44,360 acres in ...

The Director of Agriculture, Johnson Irungu, has called on farmers in Ramisi to engage in cane growing following the revival of sugar cane farming in the area. Speaking during a tour of the Kwale ...

For years, farmers in the North have been finding it difficult getting water for agricultural production. Succour may be on the way as technological strides in irrigation development are opening up ...

BASEL, Switzerland -- Syngenta announced today that it is developing a new technology to dramatically improve the cost efficiency of sugar cane planting in Brazil. Syngenta's innova-tion would reduce ...

Two sugar cane farms repeatedly failing to meet Everglades pollution cleanup goals can continue business as usual thanks to an accommodating landlord — the state of Florida. The two farms, leasing a ...

Executive Secretary, National Sugar Development Council (NSDC), Mr. Zacch Adedeji yesterday disclosed that the sector’s next direction is the growing of cane in the country. He stated that with the ...

BARRA MANSA, Brazil -- About 90 miles outside Rio de Janeiro, after the bikinis of Ipanema give way to shantytowns, industrial suburbs and finally green hills, a dozen empty 9,000-liter oak casks lie ...

Alexander & Baldwin Sugar Museum director Roslyn Lightfoot describes the workings of the Dargie Sugar Mill, a scale model (3/4 inch = 1 foot) of a nine-roller mill designed and built by Honolulu Iron ...