The culture of cane sugar plays an important socioeconomic role in Brazil, with main products as sugar and alcohol, as well as being used as a source of roughage in food animal production systems. This study aimed to evaluate the behavior of the culture of cane of sugar grown in Af type weather, characterized by rainfall in all months of the year and no dry season weather conditions. IACSP93-6006, RB83-5486 and SP79-1011: The bromatological chemical composition, agronomic and technological characteristics of three cultivars of cane sugar were determined. Experiment was conducted in a randomized block design with three treatments and four replicates and the averages compared by Tukey test at 5% probability. There were differences (P˂0.05) for dry matter, ether extract, crude protein, acid detergent fiber, lignin, cellulose, neutral detergent fiber corrected for ash and protein, total carbohydrates, B2 fraction, fraction C and raw dry’s production. The components of the fibrous portion (NDF, LIG, fraction C) showed low values, resulting in higher value of non- fiber carbohydrates, which are interesting from the point of view of the cattle feeding, given that the components of the fibrous portion influence the intake and digestibility of the food. The cultivars showed higher dry matter production highlighting the IACSP93-6006 and SP79-1011 cultivars. For agronomic characteristics were no differences (P˂0.05) for the production of natural material, number of culms, culm length and culm diameter, highlighting the IACSP93-6006 and SP79-1011 cultivars, demonstrating adaptation to climatic conditions the region. There was no difference (P>0.05) for technological attributes, Pol, Brix, reducing sugars, purity, total reducing sugars, fiber and moisture, whose values were low due to rainfall in the region, because the cane sugar requires heat or water stress for maturation to occur. In weather conditions Af has no dry season being the least rainy month trial period had 106.6 mm and the average annual temperature was 26.8 ° C.
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