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Originally posted by red-beard
We have more area that can support Corn than SUgar Cane. OTOH, we can also grow sugar beets.
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Actually, some would argue that if it were not for the work of Dr Norman Borlaug, decades ago there would not have been enough land to sustain wheat production to feed the world. Much less today. That single man has probably done more for humanity than anybody else on the planet. Who is to say that some re-engineering of sugar cane could not be done in the same way. A massive worldwide demand for sugar cane would certainly warrant the research. To to mention growing it in places that haven't been used in the past.
Extraordinary demands require extraordinary solutions. All doable when one is talking about a renewable resource. Here is what was done for wheat.
http://www.aworldconnected.org/article.php/311.html
The same could be done for sugar cane. Or maybe even corn.