Explanation:

Sugarcane is one of the major crops grown in India and India is the second largest producer of sugarcane in the world after Brazil.

It is a tropical as well as a subtropical crop and it grows well in different soils and needs manual labour from sowing to harvesting.

The Sugarcane crop takes almost a year to grow. It has five growth phases- germination phase, tillering (formative) phase, grand growth phase and maturity and ripening phase.