Date: July, 2003
Abstract: The INR 250,000 million Indian sugar industry vies with Brazil for the position of world’s leading sugar producer. Currently, about 4 million hectares of land is under sugarcane with an average yield of 70 tones per hectare.
Sugarcane is also used for the production of traditional sweeteners, ‘jaggery’ and ‘khandsari’, which are consumed largely by the rural population in India. In the early 1930s nearly two thirds of sugarcane production was utilized fo...
Research Type: Industry Note