sugar cane fields

Sugar cane fields are agricultural areas planted with sugar cane, the tall grass cultivated for its sugar-rich stalks.

The phrase evokes tropical and subtropical landscapes—the Caribbean, Brazil, Louisiana, Hawaii—often with historical associations of plantation labor and slavery: Workers bent over in the sugar cane fields under brutal sun.

The dense rows of cane, sometimes twelve feet high, figure in literature and film as places of hiding, pursuit, or backbreaking work.