In Honduras the sugar cane farmers set fire to their fields just prior to harvesting in order to eliminate the undergrowth and leaves from the canes.
The fire also drives out the rats and poisonous snakes...........
Once the fires are done, the sugar plants send in their workers who cut down the cane stalks by hand with their machetes........
I've heard that farmers annually burn off the undergrowth, and judging from the nets coverage, that's what's happening. An occasional palm tree flares and burns, but there is no thick rain forest.....mostly grasses, long ago cleared for planting or grazing.
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