The diagram below shows the manufacturing process for making sugar from sugar cane. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The diagram below displays how

sugar

is manufactured from

sugar

cane.

Overall

,

this

linear process contains four main stages: farming, crushing, separating, and drying.

The first step is

growing

sugar

cane, and it takes about 12 to 18 months to become mature. After it has fully grown, it is harvested either manually or mechanically. The manual method involves farmers removing the leaves first and

then

chopping the canes,

while

the mechanized method uses machines to cut the canes directly. The harvested canes are crushed in a special machine to extract the juice, which later on is purified by using a limestone filter.

Next,

the purified juice is boiled in an evaporator to remove water and becomes syrup. The syrup is

then

poured into a centrifuge where it is spun at high speed to separate the

sugar

crystals.

Finally

, the crystals are dried and cooled and the final product is

sugar

.