Comments by "Me Here" (@mehere8038) on "Why Indigenous Panela Sugar Is So Expensive | So Expensive | Business Insider" video.

  1. I very much doubt that water claim is legit! Sugarcane probably is the highest water using crop per hectare, but that would be because it's also the crop that produces BY FAR the most product & bio-mass per hectare. What's the per calorie water use of sugarcane vs soy & corn? Sugarcane would be far lower than soy, I'll bet! Corn is probably on par, because sugarcane & corn are both C4 photosynthesisers, that means they're 200 times more efficient in water use per molecule of carbon fixed into the plant (growth) when compared to C3 plants, so no way they're using more water per calorie than C3 plants like soy, wheat, oats, rice, bamboo, hemp, various trees etc etc
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