Question

6. List the source of sugare industries found in Ethiopia and discuss of chemistry in sugar industry production?

Answer 1

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he state of Science (s) and Technology in Agriculture. 1. ABSTRACT Sugar industry plays a great role in the socio-economy of Ethiopia since it produces sugar for household and industrial consumptions, provides great job opportunity for the nationals, serves as source of energy and co-products are used for miscellaneous purposes. Commercial sugarcane cultivation in Ethiopia started in 1954 at Wonji on 5000 ha. At present sugarcane is cultivated on 37,000 ha and the four sugar mills produce about 300,000 ton sugar per annum. However, this production could not satisfy the domestic consumption, and thus the deficit is being offset by importing sugar from abroad. To bridge the gap between supply and demand as well as to exploit the international market, besides expanding the existing ones, Ethiopia is in the course of establishing new sugar factories with large tract of sugarcane plantation with the aim of attaining production of 2.25 million tons sugar and 181 million liters of ethanol at the end of the year 2014/15. There is an evident gap between the potential yield and the yield level achieved so far though productivity of the plantations seems high when compared with many other countries. This may be attributed to the combined impact of limited management creativity and use of limited improved technological developed in situ or abroad. Thus, the cane agriculture in Ethiopia still needs improved technologies that can alleviate the existing production challenges namely lack of high yielding modern cane varieties, prevalence of diseases and pests, reduced land productivity, rise of soil and water management related problems, etc.