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Sugarcane accumulates sugar-sucrose in the stalk and after attaining peak-ripening it could be either extracted commercially by the sugar mills or even made into artisan sugars like jaggery, panela, khandsari etc. The present compendium, Sugarcane: Physiological Basis of Sugar Recovery authored by two experienced sugarcane scientists Dr. Ashok Kumar Shrivastava and Dr. S. Solomon of the Indian Institute of Sugarcane Research, Lucknow (India) comprehensively ...
From times immemorial gur has satisfied the human craving for nutritive sweeteners. The lump suga-gur or jaggery is a nutritive sweetening agent manufacture primarily from sugarcane. It is consumed almost by all Indians in some form or the other. To date, its per capita consumption in India is 10.6 kg (in 1990-191). In some parts of the world gur is also produced from certain palms and sweet sorghum. Gur or jaggery is primarily produced in developing or ...
Over exploitation of natural resources and human activities have made our ecosphere prone to abiotic stresses like drought (and shortage of irrigation water), flooding/waterlogging, salinity, high and low temperatures, soil related problems and emerging nutrient deficiencies and pollution. Besides, cyclone and winds, especially in coastal areas, also affect productivity. Use of high yielding varieties, high intensity of irrigation, fertilizer consumption, ...
The present informative compendium attempts to provide general information about sugar, sugarcane crops, national and international scenario of sugarcane, its growth, development, terminology used with this crop, ripening, juice quality, staling, milling sugarcane verities, pests and diseases affective sugarcane constraints to sugarcane productivity, new equipments and process technologies developed, how to make and effective development plan for a sugar mill ...