Gannyrosie, I lived on Maui when I was a young adult, and in that day and time (the 70's) they grew mostly sugarcane on the island. The first step in harvesting was to burn the fields, then they'd cut down the stalks and take them to the refinery to be cooked into syrup. In my later years there, the cannery closed and all refining was done in California, so the cane was barged to CA to be processed. I know that smell of a cane field burning. The smell of molasses was in the air! Brings back some good memories of a part of life gone by. Now it's too expensive to tie up all that real estate with sugar cane. Pineapples, macadamia nuts, flowers have replaced almost all of the sugar growing now. Gone is the lovely smell of molasses during harvest.