INDIA WILL AGAIN BE SUGAR EXPORTER.
j BOMBAY, May 6. — Sugar making is one of India's most ancient industries, I but the loss of three-fourths of the sugar i value of the cane by use of primitive machinery and the muddy character of the produce, because a religious prejudice forbade the use of animal charcoal for refining, have confined India's sugar to local consumption. With nearly 3,000,000 acres under cane, producing I considerably more than a third of the world's total. India nevertheless exports no sugar. On the contrary, m addition to her own stupendous production, she also spends £7,000,000 for sugar annua_ly._ With new methods of refining there is now a steady development of centralised ' plants, and soon India. — the aboriginal home of the cane — will doubtless take a place as a sugar-exporting liand commensurate with tbe size of her cane crop.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14937, 16 June 1919, Page 9
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