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The cultivation of sugarcane in the world predates its use on the island of Madeira. The earliest accounts mention Papua New Guinea, and it was only much later that it reached Islamic locations.
It was precisely from the Arabs that the cultivation and care of this culture were inherited, along with the term “açúcar”, which derives from “as-sukkar.”
On the rooftop of Saccharum, the sea takes centre stage – the sea that made possible the arrival of navigators that the hospitable island of Madeira welcomed along with the sugarcane and its world of endless possibilities.
