Assessment of sugarcane industry: Suitability for production, consumption, and utilization

Abstract

Sugar is one of the oldest commodities in the world. It can be produced from sugarcane, sugar beet or other crops having sugar content. Wide applications of sugar make massive demand in the domestic including international market. An assessment of environmental impact for sugar processing industry has done in terms of production, processing, recycling, and utilization. Sugarcane mill has a significant contribution on government revenue and employment opportunities. It has other goodness like the development of community system and administrative aspects of the environmental management plan. The purpose of the study to focus the importance of sugar industry including process, the resource required and products formed along with sources of pollution and built-in mitigation measures with respect to wastewater, gaseous emissions, and solid wastes. Sugar industry by-products are now being used as raw material in the production of valuable products, which provides employment to the rural people and also have a potential to earn forging exchange by the export. The discussion of this study shows that sugar industry did not involve in a generation of harmful chemical substance neither the product has an effect on surrounding environment. It comes under the green industry, which maintained zero discharge.