cane cutter
Sugar stalk reaper
A cane cutter is a worker who harvests sugarcane by hand, using a machete or similar blade to cut the stalks close to the ground.
The work is notoriously grueling—performed in tropical heat, often for low wages.
Cane cutting has historically relied on migrant or indentured labor.
The term also applies to the cutting tool itself.
- sugarcaneSucrose-yielding tropical grass
- macheteHeavy broad-bladed knife
- fieldworkResearch conducted on location
- field handAgricultural labor worker
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
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- sugar millsugar mill, mill, sugar house, evaporator, crystallizer
- cutting toolsaxe, saw, saws, knife, blade
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cane cutterplantation owner
Agricultural estate proprietor
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