sugar cane
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nawala
@nawala123 (20871)
• Indonesia
21 Jul 20
It is little bit confusing
In Indonesia we call sugar cane as "tebu tree". But we call cane sugar as "gula pasir" which literally means "sand sugar"
Gula is sugar
Pasir is sand
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Raúl Reyes
@karibe (686)
• Venezuela
7 Apr 19
In Venezuela, as in other neighboring countries of South America, there is, in addition to sugar, honey and other alternatives not refined to sweeten: 'panela' and 'papelón', also known by other names.
'Panela' and 'papelón' are...
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buchi_bulla
@Buchi_bulla (8298)
• India
21 Mar 10
In India we buy sugarcane for Sun/crop festival which comes on January 14th. It is called Sankranthi by Telugu/Kannada people and Pongal by Tamil speaking people. It is a thanks giving festival to Sun God for the good crops that...
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rameshkumaar57
@rameshkumaar57 (5908)
• India
14 Jan 09
Friends today, i.e. 14 January is a very important festival to the Tamil community throughout the world. Basically this is not a religious festival, but it is something like a Harvest festival. In the olden times, as India was...
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thegreatdebater
@thegreatdebater (7316)
• United States
16 Oct 08
During the debate last night, John "Cotton Hill" McCain said that he would lift the ban on Sugar cane to use for bio-fuels. Now there is a reason that we have these bans, that is because two of the countries that have the most...
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mygirls9901
@mygirls9901 (338)
• United States
13 Jul 08
Can't eat beef...Mad cow
Can't eat chicken...Bird Flu
Can't eat eggs...Salmonella
Can't eat pork...Fears the Bird Flu will infect piggies
Can't eat fish...Heavy metals in the waters has poisoned their meat
Can't eat fruits...
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ladyluna
@ladyluna (7004)
• United States
16 Jun 08
Hello All,
The race is on to find a 'cure' for the world's crude-oil blues.
We've seen technology and entrepreneurship lead the way toward deep-sea drilling, sand tar pit oil extraction, shale-oil hydrofracturing technology,...
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oldcoger
@oldcoger (112)
• United States
2 May 08
We can not continue to try to produce energy from our food crops. We are causing our food prices and availability to be a major concern. The way to energy independence is to make it easier to produce energy efficient vehicals for...
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pyewacket
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
24 Apr 08
I just came from a discussion about the idea of using reusable bags for shopping purposes instead of getting all those plastic bags that are given to us at supermarkets and other stores. She came up with the idea of using Chico...
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revellanotvanella
@revellanotvanella (4033)
• United States
30 Mar 08
This issue has bothered me for some time and I just do not get the idea that we are using a crop traditionally used for food (even for the animals that make our food) and taking it and using it for ethanol. It's just like someone...
alternative energy
china grain shortages
crop shortages
ethanol
gas shortages
growing corn
sugar cane
sugar cane crops
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terilee79720
@terilee79720 (3621)
• United States
24 Mar 08
Have you ever spent time on a farm? It's hard to believe there are some people who have never seen one. I grew up on a small farm. We had all kinds of animals and grew every kind of vegetable you can imagine. We milked our own...
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