The sugar mill!

At the sugar mill, we learned the process of turning sugar anew to crystal sugar. The factory was large, with over forty thousand people supply sugar cane within a fifty kilometer radius. The factory was about five stories tall, and about a mile’s worth of square feet.

Ten sugar cane is unloaded by the truck’s that are supplied by the farmers. They then they send it through a mill to grind it down. After the grinding, the pieces are boiled later to extract the pure sugar. The liquid is then filtered, ridding the mixture of impurities. Then the extract is placed in a spinner, the. Blown dry, turning the extract to fine granules. After that, the sugar is poured and sewn into large bags to be sold on the market.

Our hosts invited us for a snack and coffee, while we looked out the window of more traditional farmers bringing sugar cane via water buffalo carts.

The mill was amazing and very eye opening to how the crops I India are being processed and made into usable food. The mills, such as the sugar mill is essential to the life and agricultural sustainability in the rural parts of India. To be able to tour these showed the true comparison of the production in India and the production in America.