Wheat, cotton, rice, millet and sugarcane are the major crops.

Well unfortunately, they didn't have sugarcane and they didn't have cassava, but that didn't stop us.

And the waste product from them after you extract the juice from the sugarcane is called bagasse.

They were used as manpower on coffee, cocoa and sugarcane plantations and as domestic workers by the Creole landowners and colonial authorities, who ruled the land.

Compared to the sugarcane charcoal, where we actually have to teach people how to form it into briquettes and you have the extra step of cooking the binder, this comes pre briquetted.

We are genetically programmed to like sweet things, and when people become more affluent, they consume more sugar. The resulting increase in sugar prices has led producers to seek more land on which to grow sugarcane.

A commonly cited example of the outgoing government s alleged economic mismanagement was its sugar price policy. Powerful sugarcane cooperatives, led by major UPA supporters, supposedly drove the government to fix extravagant prices and write off sugar farmers bad debts, leading to over production.