In Canada, as well as the U.K. and Australia, December 26 is now better known as a day for scooping up shopping deals, similar to Black Friday in the U.S. Most stores open their doors early and discount prices on items ranging from clothing to technology to appliances.
In the United States, sugar cane is grown commercially in Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, Texas and Puerto Rico. It could also be grown, and used to be, in much of Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, and nearly all of Mississippi.
Sugarcane predominantly grows in the tropical and subtropical regions (sugar beets grow in colder temperate regions.) Other than sugar, products derived from sugarcane include falernum, molasses, rum, cachaca (cachaÃ§a a traditional spirit From), brazil bagasse and. ethanolhe production of ethanol from sugar cane is more energy efficient than from corn or sugar beets or palm/vegetable oils, particularly if cane bagasse is used to produce heat and power for the process.