Sugar

Sugar

1. SUGARCANE

   • Native to warm temperate and tropical regions
   • It has jointed fibrous stalks that are rich in sugar sucrose
   • It is producedover 100 cuntries in the world like South Asia and Melanesia.
   • 70% of sugar is made from sugarcane
   • Sugarcane looks like bamboo stalks and it is in the stalks that the plant stores energy that it doesn’t need straight away
     • Farmers cut some of the fully grown cane stalks into lengths of about 40 centimeters called "setts".The setts are planted by special machines, which drop them into furrows, add fertiliser and cover them with soil.
       • The cane harvester drives along and cuts the cane stalk off at the bottom of the plant. The long stalk is then cut into many shorter lengths called ‘billets’, then another machine collects them.
   • Sugarcane needs strong sunlight, fertile soil and lots of water to grow

2. SUGARBEET

   • The sugar beet has a conical, white, fleshy root with a flat crown, it consists of the root and a rosette of leaves. Sugar is formed by photosynthesis in the leaves and is then stored in the root
   • The remaining 30% is taken from sugarbeet
   • It growsmostly in the temperate zones of the northen hemisphere

3. It roots contain a high level of sucrose

4. In 2013, Russia, France, the United States, Germany, and Turkey were the world's five largest sugar beet producers. However, in 2010–2011, North America, Western Europe, and Eastern Europe did not produce enough sugar from sugar beets to meet overall demand for sugar and were all net importers of sugar.

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