| Botany and
Cultivation |
- Ko
(Canoe Plants of Ancient Hawaii)
Ko (sugar cane), its cultivation, and use in Native Hawaiian culture.
- Sugar
Cane: Past and Present
(Peter Sharpe, 1998, Ethnobotanical Leaflets)
A short article outlining the horticulture and history of sugar cane.
- Sugarcane
(Timothy Braun, 1999, Ethnobotanical Leaflets)
A short article describing the history of the industry and sugar cane
processing.
- Sugarcane
Handbook
(Florida Cooperative Extension Service, 1998)
Covers sugarcane growing in Florida, but also includes topics of
interest in other locations such as mineral nutrition, pests and
diseases, and weed control.
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| Diseases
and Pests |
- Coconut
Scale (Aspidiotus destructor Signoret) (88
Kb PDF file)
Agricultural Pests of the Pacific ADAP 2000-5
(Donald Nafus, University of Guam, 2000, Agricultural Development in
the American Pacific (ADAP) Project)
Leaflet; includes color photographs of the insect.
- New
Guinea Sugarcane Weevil (Rhabdoscelus obscurus Boisduval)
(84 Kb PDF file)
Agricultural Pests of the Pacific ADAP 2000-9
(Ilse Schreiner, 2000, Agricultural Development in the American Pacific
(ADAP) Project)
Leaflet; includes color photograph of the insect and its damage.
- Sugarcane:
FAO/ IPGRI Technical Guidelines for the Safe Movement of Germplasm
(1.08 Mb PDF file)
(E.A. Frison and C.A.J. Putter, 1993, International Plant Genetic
Resources Institute (IPGRI))
Provides "crop-specific technical guidelines that provide relevant
information on disease indexing and other procedures that will help
ensure phytosanitary safety when germplasm is moved internationally."
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| Marketing and Statistics |
- 1997
Census of Agriculture (USA)
(U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Provides summary agricultural statistics for the entire country as well
as statistics for each state; table 27 (volume 1, chapter 2) includes
data by state for 1992 and 1997; number of farms, number of acres, and
tons produced; in PDF format.
- 1999
Census of Agriculture - American Samoa
(U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Data for 1990 and 1999; number of farms, number of acres in production,
pounds harvested for sale and for consumption, and the value in dollars
of the fruit harvested for sale and for consumption; in PDF format.
- Hawaii
Agricultural Statistics Service (HASS)
Report on sugarcane production in Hawaii; comparisons to the previous
year for all sugar producing U.S. states; acres harvested, yield, and
total production; available in both HTML and PDF formats.
- Puerto
Rico Census of Agriculture
(U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Data for 1993 and 1998 for three categories of sugarcane: fall cane,
spring cane, and ratoon cane; number of farms, number of cuerdas
(approximately the same as acres) in production, and tons harvested;
additional tables provide market value information and detailed
information on production by district; in PDF format.
- Statistics
of Hawaii Agriculture
(Hawaii Agricultural Statistics Service)
Data for 1999 through 2003 for each county in the State; number of
farms, acreage in production and harvested, yield per acre, farm price,
and "value of cane for sugar"; production of raw sugar and molasses in
tons, the return in dollars per ton, and value of production; available
in both HTML and PDF formats.
- Virgin
Islands of the United States: 1998 Census of Agriculture - Area Data
(U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Data for 1993 and 1998; number of farms, number of acres, and pounds
harvested; in PDF format.
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| Reference and Research Tools |
- Free Public Databases
- AGRICOLA:
1970-present
(U.S. National Agricultural Library)
Citations, most with abstracts, to journal articles, books, theses,
technical reports, and other publications in agriculture and related
areas such as nutrition, biotechnology, and botany.
- AGRIS
1975 - present
(FAO)
International database covering agricultural sciences and technology
containing citations for conventional and non-conventional ("grey")
literature.
- PubMed
(Medline) 1966 - present
(U.S. National Library of Medicine)
Citations, most with abstracts, for journal articles in biomedicine
including nutrition.
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