Where Is Sugarcane Native to? Introduction to Its Ripening and Harvest Time and Main Varieties

Sugarcane is an annual crop, planted from spring every year. The ripening period of sugarcane is around the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the sugarcane sales period runs from around the Mid-Autumn Festival each year until it is sold out by Qingming the following year. So where is sugarcane native to? What are its main varieties? The details are as follows:

The main sugarcane producing areas are in China's major sugarcane regions, mainly distributed in the tropical and subtropical zones south of 24° north latitude, including Guangdong, Taiwan, China, Guangxi, Fujian, Sichuan, Yunnan, Jiangxi, Guizhou, Hunan, Zhejiang, Hubei, Hainan and other 12 southern provinces and autonomous regions.

Main sugarcane varieties

By use, sugarcane can be divided into fruit sugarcane and sugar sugarcane.

By external shape, it can also be divided into sugarcane “Hei Jingang”, sugarcane “Hei Qinggang” and sugarcane “Bai Yu Zhe”.

Fruit sugarcane is sugarcane intended specifically for fresh eating. It has characteristics such as being relatively easy to tear, low in fiber, moderate in sugar content, crisp stems, abundant juice with a delicious taste, good mouthfeel, as well as thick stems, long nodes and an attractive stem shape.

What season is sugarcane in

When we eat sugarcane, we mainly chew the sugar in the sugarcane stem, so the accumulation of sugar in sugarcane is very important. Sugarcane is a winter fruit, generally harvested around October, and it can be eaten until March or April of the following year.

However, technology has gradually become more advanced, so sugarcane can now be eaten all year round. Greenhouse technology is now well developed and can control the temperature and humidity of plant growth; moreover, deep processing of food is also constantly developing, sugarcane is made into various secondary processed foods, and packaging technology and developed logistics can allow people to eat sugarcane whenever they want, so in this way, crops no longer have so-called seasonality.

Sugarcane is a cooling fruit, rich in vitamins, sugar and trace elements, and of course also contains a large amount of crude fiber. It can clear heat and detoxify, nourish yin and moisten dryness, making it very suitable for eating in dry seasons.

Sugarcane is not only an excellent winter fruit, but also a good medicine for preventing disease and strengthening the body. Traditional Chinese medicine holds that sugarcane is sweet in taste and cold in nature; sweetness can nourish and enrich the blood, while cold can clear heat and promote fluid production, so it has the effect of nourishing and moistening dryness. It is suitable for conditions such as hypoglycemia, cardiac weakness, insufficient body fluids, sore and swollen throat, dry bound stool, and deficiency-heat cough. Among the people, 50 grams each of sugarcane juice and grape wine are often mixed and taken once in the morning and once in the evening, which has a very good effect on treating chronic gastritis and nausea and vomiting.

When does sugarcane ripen

Sugarcane is an annual crop, planted starting in February each year and beginning to ripen and be harvested in November. It takes 9 months to grow to 2.6 m tall. Generally, each sugarcane weighs about 6-7 jin, and a few can reach 8-9 jin. The best time to eat sugarcane is winter. After the dry autumn climate, once the north wind blows, much of the water in the sugarcane evaporates, so winter sugarcane is the sweetest.

The Guangxi sugarcane we usually eat is generally cut fresh. Sugarcane cannot be stored in a freezer like apples; once cut, it will mold after being left for a period of time, even if you put it in a freezer. This is a difficult problem that cannot currently be overcome! That is also why we usually cannot eat sugarcane!