I need to know differences between industrial cane and chewing cane in it's morphological, physical and physiological character. Both the canes come under Saccharum officinarum.
Chewing cane is softer and made for the human teeth to chew and extract liquid (Easy chewing).
The industrial cane, on the contrary, is very hard and made for industrial plant to squeeze and get sugar (Difficult chewing).
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The principal characteristic of chewing cane is a few fiber concentrations . Then it´s softer in any state of plant matures. In Mexico used traditionaly varietys and chewing cane is growth in small parcels (farmland), in diferents conditiions of industrial sugar cane.
As described by others there is no difference in basic properties.In early when cane is soft useful for chchewing.
"Sugarcane varieties can be placed into one of three categories according to their physical and chemical characteristics—chewing canes, crystal canes, or syrup canes".
Please see below website for different TYPEs of sugarcanes produced by different varieties. Website is owned by University of Florida Extension (USA) at: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/sc052
I totally agree with Yuan-Yeu Yau.
if we take two categories Chewing and Industry (Crystal & Syrup ) then we can say; chewing cane is soft in nature and not so hard but Industry cane may be soft or hard and have a larger diameter then chewing cane.
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