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Countries Producing the Most Sugarcane

Which countries produce the greatest amount of sugarcane?
Source: FAO. 2023 data.
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Metric tons
Country
783 m
Brazil
491 m
India
105 m
China
94.0 m
Thailand
87.6 m
Pakistan
56.0 m
Mexico
34.7 m
Indonesia
Metric tons
Country
32.6 m
Australia
32.4 m
Colombia
29.9 m
United States
26.4 m
Guatemala
21.7 m
Philippines
17.9 m
South Africa
15.4 m
Argentina
Metric tons
Country
15.3 m
Egypt
11.8 m
Vietnam
11.2 m
Myanmar
10.3 m
Bolivia
10.1 m
Peru
8.60 m
Iran
8.27 m
Cuba
37 Comments
+4
Level 88
Nov 29, 2018
Sugarcane requires a wet tropical client. So these all make sense except... Australia! Not a very wet place for the most part.
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Level 84
Nov 29, 2018
It's a huge country, some parts in the north are totally tropical.
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Level 86
Jan 30, 2025
Like Lilt!
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Level 92
Jan 30, 2025
I love Lilt, what happened to it?
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Level 76
Nov 29, 2018
So what do you think Egypt sounds like? Finally got them all. Not so on tea and bananas.
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Level 73
Nov 30, 2018
Australia even has tropical rainforest and temperate rainforest. With tree kangaroos. Don't know if they eat sugarcane though...
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Level 42
Jan 29, 2025
Tree kangaroos? Is that a tree or a kangaroo. Australia is getting scarier!
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Level 80
Nov 30, 2018
This is a great song about Australia that even mentions the sugar cane fields. You might need to come for a visit and check the place out. Put it on your bucket list...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML9h3I5Uktw
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Level 51
Mar 16, 2019
Australia was one of the first ones I thought of! Queensland is pure sugarcane country.
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Level 59
Mar 16, 2021
Tropical Northern Queensland is full of sugar cane fields. They are absolutely everywhere!
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Level 80
Mar 17, 2021
Australia is a big place, we only have one portion of one state producing sugar cane but that still equates to a fairly large amount!
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Level 72
Mar 17, 2021
Besides Queensland which I think you are referring to Blizzrd33 there are acres of sugar cane in northern NSW as well.
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Level 81
Mar 17, 2021
I was just driving along the road near Murwillumbah in northern NSW the other day and had to pull over to snap a photo of the beautiful view of Mt Warning towering over the expanse of cane fields.
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Level 70
May 12, 2021
Egypt makes even less sense
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Level 70
May 12, 2021
It does if you've been there! It was a (bad) idea by Nasser, who apparently thought that Egypt could become rich by massive irrigation from the Nile and growing only sugarcane. As a result, they have massive water shortages, and one of the highest rates of diabetes in the world (10th in 2019 - far ahead of the US).
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Level 42
Jan 29, 2025
What about Egypt? Australia got the coast Egypt is mainly DESERT!
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Level 92
Jan 30, 2025
There is a fairly well-known and substantial source of water passing right through Egypt…
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Level 36
Apr 6, 2019
Can't believe that Jamaica and Barbados, two of the greatest exporters of Rum aren't included here.
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Level 87
Aug 13, 2019
The greater mystery is the absence of Dominican Republic --- 2nd largest exporter of rum after the US. Cuba is the third largest exporter of rum. Jamaica and Barbados are 5th and 6th
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Level 86
Mar 16, 2021
I assumed Dominican Republic as well.
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Level 76
Mar 16, 2021
The DR is a fair way off the pace at 565,000 tonnes, which sounds a lot but is less than a tenth of the 20th ranked country.
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Level 80
Mar 17, 2021
I was also surprised that the only Caribbean entry was in 20th place in the quiz. A couple of hundred years ago they would have featured more prominently.
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Level 71
Mar 17, 2021
I'm too lazy to actually analyze the data, but I would assume that they are pretty large producers per capita (or by land area), but the Caribbean nations are pretty small, especially when compared to Brazil, China, India, Australia, etc.
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Level 69
May 12, 2021
That's 753 million metric tons of the Amazon gone.
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Level 72
Jul 13, 2022
The sugar cane is planted in the coast, very far from the forest
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Level 74
Jan 29, 2025
Our rainforest is mainly destroyed by illegal mining, cattle ranching and soybean plantations. Don't underestimate our agrobusiness, he's pretty resourceful when it comes to destroy our biomes. Sugarcane is cultivated where once existed another rainforest, almost as big as the Amazon. It:s called the Atlantic Forest. That one was the first victim and already during colonial times. So kudos to Portugal too.
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Level 72
Feb 2, 2025
I know, I'm Brazilian
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Level 61
May 13, 2021
Fun fact: after losing all its colonies in the Americas, Spain lost its main source of sugar and therefore a lot of sugarcane started being planted along the coasts of Malaga and Granada (which have an almost tropical climate). Today, my hometown Frigiliana has the last remaining factory of molasses made from refined sugarcane in all of Europe.
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Level 65
Aug 3, 2021
Add my established Minecraft empire right after crafting an enchantment table and needing all the bookshelfs!
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Level 32
Oct 20, 2021
I thought I found a scavenger hunt letter when I saw your comment was most recent…
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Level 84
Mar 22, 2022
I was quite surprised that none of the tropical African countries grow sugar cane
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Level 32
May 8, 2023
The only reason I got Pakistan was because sugar cane juice is their national juice
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Level 42
Jan 29, 2025
I only got Pakistan is because it is next to India.
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Level 28
Jan 31, 2025
Same
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Level 73
Jan 29, 2025
Just missed South Africa
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Level 92
Jan 30, 2025
The pattern here is slightly more complex than just the climate. More than a few of these seem to be a combination of that tropical / sub-tropical biome, with colonised lands that were well supplied with either slave or indentured labour.
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Level 28
Jan 31, 2025
Only missed Cuba