It tastes sweet, so it also has a sweet meaning. Sugarcane is long and contains a lot of sugar, and it is sweet from the top to the root, so sugarcane means to be sweet forever. In some areas, when the newly-married bride comes home, her family will send some sugar cane to express their blessing to the bride.

Characteristics of sugarcane

Sugarcane is a kind of crop that likes warmth and light. Sugarcane has a wide adaptability to soil, and clay loam, loam and sandy loam are better. Sugarcane can grow when the soil pH is 4.5 ~ 8.0, but the suitable soil pH is 6.5 ~ 7.5.

Common sugarcane varieties are black-skinned sugarcane, yellow-skinned sugarcane and green-skinned sugarcane. These kinds of sugarcane are soft, waxy and soft, suitable for direct consumption, and belong to fruit sugarcane. There is also a kind of sugarcane specially used for squeezing sugar. This kind of sugarcane has high yield, hard pulp and toughness, and is the raw material of sugar factory.