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Describe the commercial cultivation of sugarcane from land preparation to the harvesting stage.

      

Describe the commercial cultivation of sugarcane from land preparation to the harvesting stage.

  

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gideon
i) Land preparation to harvesting

- Land is ploughed using machines
- Furrows are made in the field
- Sugarcane cuttings are dipped in insecticides before planting
- Fertilizer is applied in the field severally
- The sugarcane cuttings (setts) are buried/planted in furrows
- Weeding is done severally/spraying of herbicides
- Crop matures at about 18 – 24 months and cane is manually harvested using matchets/pangas
- Cane is piled in heaps and loaded into tractors to factories

Processing to marketing of sugar

- At the factory, cane is received and weighed
- It is washed and later crashed to remove juice
- Juice is boiled for water to evaporate
- It is stirred in tank to allow formation of crystals
- Crystals are separated form molasses
- For white sugar, bleach is added
- Sugar is dried/graded/refined
- Sugar is weighed and packed
- Sugar is sold to marketing board
- Marketing board distributes sugar to wholesalers
gideon1 answered the question on October 4, 2017 at 11:15


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