[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)hadukenski t1_j82zkgu wrote
India must be the 2nd largest then with production of 419.25 million tonnes. https://www.chinimandi.com/sugarcane-production-in-2021-22-season-estimated-at-419-25-million-tonnes/
That's a lot of cane sugar in the world.
V8O t1_j83hpjd wrote
India is indeed 2nd largest in production, and India + Brazil together account for over half of all commercially grown sugar cane on the planet.
India is also the world's largest consumer of sugar, while Brazil (having a much smaller population) is the largest net exporter of sugar (even though half the sugar cane crop there gets turned into ethanol instead of sugar).
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