Open AccessA case study of sugarcane crushing profile of sugar factories in Solapur district
Author(s) -
R. K. Patil,
Swaranjali Rajguru
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
international journal of health sciences (ijhs) (en línea)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2550-6978
pISSN - 2550-696X
DOI - 10.53730/ijhs.v6ns3.6172
Subject(s) - sugar , agriculture , uttar pradesh , production (economics) , jaggery , sugar industry , crop , microbiology and biotechnology , agricultural science , engineering , agronomy , geography , environmental science , biology , economics , socioeconomics , food science , macroeconomics , archaeology
Sugarcane plays a pivotal role within the agro industrial economy of India and really within the real economy. India is that the world’s second largest nation after ones Brazil in sugar production. Employment and dependency on the industry is big. Massive mass of agriculture labour area unit concerned in sugarcane cultivation, harvesting and different activities. Sugarcane is taken into account crop for the longer term thanks to its contribution to production of sugar, jaggery, khandsari and lots of by product like syrup molasses, bagasses and press mud and additionally bound renewable sources of green energy within the variety of bioethanol and many bio-based products. Production of sugar in India is from sugarcane as a result most of the sugar factories area unit placed within the states. Maharashtra state has the highest number of sugar mills followed by Uttar Pradesh. The paper aims to analysis the performance of sugar industry of solapur district. This study includes sugarcane production, sugar production, number of factories in operation, etc. The study has targeted on the sugar crushing state of affairs of solapur district in past four years and Secondary information was obtained from ‘Pradeshik Sakhar Sahsanchalak Karyalay’ Solapur.