Sugar cane planted at Sugar King

Members of the Mayor’s Office of Saipan, and the Division of Agriculture added a new plant feature in Garapan last Wednesday when they planted an estimate of 40 sugar cane over three beds of soil at the Sugar King park.

As the planting took place, the press was able to get a word with Saipan Mayor Ramon RB Camacho. He shared that the team had planted 14 plants per row, and that the plants had initially sprouted and been growing at the Mayor’s Office in Susupe. As planned, the plants were relocated to it’s final destination at the Sugar King Park, right in front of the statue of “Sugar King” Haruji Matsue, the park’s namesake.

Camacho had told the press that he had looked over the park before and noticed there were no sugar cane plants on display there, despite the park being named after pre-war CNMI sugar plantation owner. He said that it just makes sense to have some growing in the park for visitors to see.

Camacho said that he and Tomonori Ito, the Mayor of Katori, Japan, which is Saipan’s sister city will be adding two mandarin trees to the park this weekend during Ito’s visit to Saipan. Ito along with over 30 visitors from Katori city in Japan will be visiting Saipan for the Japanese Autumn Festival and the Shinto ceremony at the Sugar King Park’s Katori Shrine this Saturday.