[OC] Sugarcane was first introduced to Brazil in 1532. Half a millennium later, the country produces over 700M tonnes yearly (roughly the same amount as all of Asia, and 7x the amount produced by Africa) Submitted by latinometrics t3_10z0y3g on February 10, 2023 at 7:42 PM in dataisbeautiful 66 comments 1,163
Mushroom_Tip t1_j82yhkj wrote on February 11, 2023 at 6:10 AM Just in case some people didn't know this, not all sugar comes form sugarcane. Around half of the sugar in the US comes from sugar beets. So this isn't the supply of sugar in the world but rather just sugarcane alone. Permalink 2
[OC] Sugarcane was first introduced to Brazil in 1532. Half a millennium later, the country produces over 700M tonnes yearly (roughly the same amount as all of Asia, and 7x the amount produced by Africa)
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