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Sugar cane was introduced in the seventeenth century by the Dutch. The agricultural sector in Mauritius is dominated by sugar. Cultivation of sugar cane in Mauritius was possible by the widespread clearing of forests in the islands during the eighteenth and nineteenth century. It was of course not a good thing to destroy the natural forest on the island because it also destroyed many endemic species. On the positive side sugar cane is considered as a fast growing grass that offers good vegetative cover to the ground and prevents soil erosion to occur massively.
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