Cane-Sugar Processing Plant

Abstract

Sugar can be produced from sugar-cane and from sugar-beet. Sugar-cane is a crop grown in tropical regions, mainly in developing countries, while sugar-beet is a crop grown in temperate regions, mostly in developed countries. The world-wide production of sugar is an important sector of the food industry and recently the total yearly production has been almost 95 million tonnes. Until 1915, the amount of sugar obtained from sugar-beet was greater than that obtained from sugar-cane. After 1915, cane-sugar surpassed beet-sugar and today accounts for almost 6010 of world sugar production.