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I would bet the US produces a lot more corn than India. The climate in India is much more friendly to sugarcane than the US. The US climate is not really right for sugarcane except some of the southern most parts of the south.

Cuban relations and bad foreign policy in the 1970s forced the switchover to corn syrup. Despite the wishes of Coke[1].

[1]http://www.searchamelia.com/cubas-uneasy-sugar-cane-revenge