Essay On Sugar Production

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Sugar is produced in about 120 countries across the world. The Global sugar production is around 176.36 million tons, every year. 80% of this global sugar production is produced from sugarcane and grown largely in tropical countries. The remaining 20% is produced from sugar beet, which is grown mostly in the temperate zones of the northern hemisphere. About 70 countries produce sugar from sugar cane, 40 countries from sugar beet and 10 countries from both. The top 10 largest sugar producing nations represent roughly 75% of world sugar production.
India is one of the developing countries in the world establishing a large number of industries such as textile, sugar, distillery, steel, paper etc. which aid in the progress of the nation. These …show more content…

Europe and part of US mainly produce beet molasses, and remaining is only sugarcane molasses. Traditionally, molasses is classified as waste or by product of sugar factory and is used mainly for Animal feed additive and Alcohol production. It is predicted that around 80% of the total molasses is used for alcohol production whereas rest is used for animal feeds and other products. Molasses is a syrup, containing a mixture of uncrystallizable sugars, non-sugar solids originating from cane or beet, chemicals from the sugar manufacturing process and some water. The growing need of alcohol as motor-fuel additive has stressed the availability of raw materials, around the world. This has resulted in increased preciousness of every agro-based feedstock, which can be used for alcohol production. Molasses is a major feedstock for distilleries in the tropical and temperate regions globally. Advanced studies on molasses and technological improvements resulting in 5 to 10% increase in the alcohol yields can increase the alcohol production from same quantity of world molasses by 800 to 1000 million litres annually. There is an increasing demand for alcohol due to its export potential, portable uses, as a fuel blended with petrol and diesel and as a raw material for the rapidly advancing synthetic chemical industry. Production of Ethanol is renewable, agro-based and non-toxic. Hence there is scope for increase in the number of

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