Coconut palm trees produce 75% more sugar than cane fields with one-fifth the resources
"Coconut palm trees produce up to 75 percent more sugar per acre than cane fields do, and require just one-fifth of the resources to crank out the same amount of sweetener" (page 8).
Avital Andrews, "Clean Sweets," Sierra Magazine 98, no. 6 (2013), 8.