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

The diagram illustrates manufacturing

sugar

from the sugarcane plant.

Overall

, the process has seven

steps

, the main

steps

: growing and harvesting

then

,the production process itself consists of five

steps

: crushing, purifying, evaporating, separating,

finally

, drying and cooling. The process starts with

sugar

cane growing.It takes from 12 to 18 months to have fully grown sugarcane plants.

Then

, harvesting can be done by a special machine or can be done manually by the farmers. Those two

steps

are done on the farm

while

the following

steps

usually takes place in the factory. After that, the first step in the production, which is crushing. A special machine is used to crush the

sugar

canes and produce juice. The extracted juice is purified through a limestone filter. The purified juice is heated in an evaporator to change it into syrup.

The next step is

separating the

sugar

crystals from syrup through a centrifuge machine.

Lastly

, cooling and drying the separated

sugar

to have the

sugar

in the form that we use everyday.