SOCIAL INTEGRATED

PROJECT

introduction
Sugar is the generalized name
for a class of sweet-flavored
substances used as food.
Sugar has been produced in
the Indian subcontinent since
ancient times. It was not
plentiful or cheap in early
times and honey was more
often used for sweetening in
most parts of the world.
Originally, people chewed raw
sugarcane to extract its
sweetness.

Leading producers of sugar

Country

Production (
Tons)

Brazil

672,157,000

India

285,029,000

People's Republic
of China
Thailand

116,251,272
66,816,400

Pakistan

50,045,400

Mexico

49,492,700

Colombia

38,500,000

Philippines

32,500,000

Brazil
is the largest producer
of sugar in the
Australia
30,284,000
world, and then next comes the India with
Argentina
29,000,000
more than 450 mills and produces
285,029,000
tons but India
stands no 1 in
World
1,743,068,525
the production of Gur and Khandsari and
then next comes the china .

Sugarcane
producing areas
in the world

sugarcane
producing
areas in
India

Manufacturing of
sugar
After the cane arrives at the mill
yards, it is mechanically unloaded,
and excessive soil and rocks are
removed. The cane is cleaned by
flooding the carrier with warm
water ,that pass through strong jets
of water and combing drums. At this
point, the cane is clean and ready to
be milled. The vapors from one body
can thus boil the juice in the next
one, a method called multiple-effect
evaporation. Next, the syrupy
solution is vacuum-crystallized to
form sugar crystals. The remaining
liquid is removed using
centrifugaling and drying, and the
sugar is packaged.

By products
Bagasse :- obtained as a byproduct of sugar cane processing,
.is composed of fibre, pith, nonsoluble solids and water,95% of
bagasse is used as fuel. Pulp and
paper, boards, furfural and animal
feeds are among the main
products obtained from bagasse

Ethanol
:- product of
It
is also a by
sugar manufacture and it is
mainly used as alcohol and
for the purpose of fuel

Sugarcooperative
sector
Sugarcane industries is
seasonal in nature so, it
is ideally suited to the
cooperative sector.
sugarcane is usually
grown as a secondary
crop as its industrial
demand is very seasonal.

Ideal place for sugar mills

sugar factories are situated only
in the cane growing areas and
almost within 25 kms distance
from the sugarcane farms.
However, proportion of area
under sugar cane production is
small relatively. As such, sugar
factories are highly dispersed
even in those areas that have an
appreciable hectare under cane.

Production
areas
In India the major sugar cane
producing areas are Uttar
Pradesh, Maharashtra ,Andhra
Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Gujarat,
Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala,

Growth promotional activities

The Indian government has announced their intention to fully liberate sugar
sector in phases.
Setting up of futures / forward market in sugar and has given approval to
three exchanges for the purpose of forward trading To boost the export of sugar from the country the policy allows free export
of sugar and factories can also undertake export of raw sugar in addition to
mill white sugar.
The Govt. has decided to deferment benefit of adjustment of releases of free
sale sugar made for export purposes from 12 months to 18 months.

Also the taskforce for the Tenth Plan has rightly stated that there is a need
to improve the sub optimal capacity of many sugar mills in the country and
that emphasis should given for sugarcane productivity rather than to target
increase in area under the cane crop.