Sugar Tangle

Abstract

Amongst the more important crops grown in India sugarcane to this crop untill the sugarcane section was organised in Madras in 1911.Other countries like west Indies,Cuba,Mauritius,Java,Formosa and Hawaii which introduced sugarcanes later managed to forage ahead so uch so that Jawa was able to export large quantities of sugar to India for several years.Java's position in 1930 could be summed up in the statement : acreage 484,984:tons of cane harvested.25,292,273:tons of sugar exported to India alone 351,735(metric),in 1929-30 the area under cane in India was 2,677,000 acres."from this."says Sir Bryce Burt'was produced 21150 tons of sugar refined fom gur.89,768 tons of sugar produced 21150 tons of sugar refined from gur.89,768 tons of sugar prodced direct from canes by modern factories,and some200,000tons of sugar manufaturedd by tht indigenous open pan ar khandasari process.so the allowing for setsthe in planting and cane fit chewing 1,837,888 tons og gur were produced for consumption as such.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.002258

Pages

63 - 64

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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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