IELTS Academic Writing Task 1 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. Write at least 150 words.

The image illustrates the steps to obtain

sugar

from growing

sugar

cane.

Overall

, the plant needs to go through 7 different manufacturing phases before arriving in the

sugar

state.

First,

the cultivation process can take between 12 to 18 months until the canes are ready to be harvested. When the plants have grown enough, the next phase is harvesting them which can be done in two different ways depending on the production extension. For bigger productions, it is normally done with the help of agricultural machinery,

while

for smaller quantities

this

step is done manually pulling the plant one by one. The third step is crushing the raw material to obtain a juice, that later on, will be purified with a limestone filter. In order to create the syrup, the liquid will have to be heated at high temperatures inside the evaporator machine, which will

also

centrifuge the syrup to separate the

sugar

crystals. The

last

step is to let the

sugar

cool and dry until it becomes in a

sugar

state ready to be consumed. In conclusion,

sugar

comes from a natural resource from agricultural practices,

however

, needs to be processed with specific chemistry machines to obtain the final result.