Last year, after Hurricane Katrina knocked out sugar crops and refineries, world sugar prices more than doubled to 19 cents per pound.

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Many growers, meanwhile, say the behavior from mills only encourages them to shift even more land away from sugar to other crops.

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Yet the state still gives water away free to farmers, who grow such thirsty crops as sugar cane.

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Farmers soak up about 85% of the border region's scarce water, and on the semi-arid land on both sides they grow thirsty cash crops like sugar cane.

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Oilseed rape, millet, pulses and sugar cane are among the crops to be investigated.

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As most of India's agricultural land depends on rainfall rather than irrigation, variations in monsoon's arrival date can throw into disarray plans for sowing summer crops such as rice, sugar cane, cotton and oilseeds.

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The most common Genetically Engineered crops are Corn, Soy, Canola, Sugar Beets, Cotton, Hawaiian Papaya, Alfalfa, and Squash (zucchini and yellow).

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The deluge has caused extensive damage to key crops - such as wheat, cotton and sugar cane - in a country where agriculture is an economic lynch-pin.

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He wanted the great sugar estates broken up and land distributed to small farmers, who would grow other crops.

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