Crop is Barbados's biggest festival, having had its early beginnings on the sugar cane plantations during the colonial period.

In agricultural areas they will also, as the name suggests, feed on the crops in cane plantations, making them a significant pest.

A related dance, Maculelé, is actually an enactment of machete movements associated with the cane plantations.

It cuts for three miles through cane plantations and rice fields.

San Estevan is surrounded by thousands of acres of lush cane plantations.

The cane plantations, increasingly in the hands of American tycoons, found a ready market in the US.

One solution would be to invite foreign investors to buy a share of cane plantations or sugar mills.

After an afternoon's rest, they had walked through a cane plantation to have tea at a pension where some friends of theirs were staying.

Among the first Sri Lankan immigrants to Australia were those recruited to work on the cane plantations of northern Queensland in the late 19th century.

In 1837 Cuba acquired Latin America's first railway, originally laid to serve certain cane plantations, then gradually expanded to its present 3,030 miles.