Though it is widely known that the Benares Hindu University owes its origin to our revered leader. Pandit Madan Mohan Malvyaji,it is within the knoledge of only a few that the rebirth of the Indian Sugar Industry was also initiated by Panditji.It was he that drew the attention of the Government of India to the eteriorating position of the home industry caused by imports of cheap white sugar from Java.At the instance of the legislature,the Central Agricultural Board intiated work in two directions. One was on the manufacturing side and consisted of trying to evolve a unit in between the modern sugar factory and gur manufactoring methods.To the Station at Coimbatore was entrusted the task of producing improved sugarcanes for te country.This is because the canes in cultivation over the bulk of India were easily some of the pocrest in the world.
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