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 process diagram shows how

sugar

is made from

sugar

cane

. There are seven stages, with only two variables. The process begins with

sugar

cane

and ends with plain

sugar

.

To begin

with, the

sugar

-making process requires

sugar

cane

, which is grown for a period of twelve to eighteen months.

This

is

then

harvested, which can be done in one of two ways. Either it is mechanically collected by means of a tractor or it is gathered by hand. Following its collection, the

sugar

cane

is fed through a crushing machine in order to extract the juice.

This

is

then

purified by being fed through a limestone filter

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before

then

being heated in an evaporator. Here, the juice turns into

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syrup.

Next,

it is fed into a centrifuge, where

sugar

crystals are separated from the syrup. In the final stage, the

sugar

is cooled and dried in some kind of vat.