[OC] Sugarcane was first introduced to Brazil in 1532. Half a millennium later, the country produces over 700M tonnes yearly (roughly the same amount as all of Asia, and 7x the amount produced by Africa)imgrandojjo t1_j82ihuq wrote
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Not just in brazil either, the Caribbean sugar industry more or less copied what Brazil was doing, up to and including the importing of African slaves.
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