Abstract:
Sugar cane is the oldest and cheapest source
for the production of sugar. The earliest record
of sugar cane cultivation in Hindu literature is
about 3000 years old. Sugar cane spread slowly
to Persia and then to Egypt, where commercial
production and refining of cane sugar was developed
during the 9th century. Across Northern
Africa and the Mediterranean area sugar cane
came to Spain and the Canary Islands, from
where Columbus introduced it to the New
World.
