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

The diagram illustrates how

sugar

is manufactured from

sugar

cane.

Overall

, it is a linear process consisting of four main stages: farming, crushing, separating and drying.

The first step is

to grow

sugar

cane and it takes about 12 to 18 months for it to 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

then

crushed in a mill to extract the juice, which is later purified using a limestone filter.

Next,

the purified juice is boiled in an evaporator to remove water, which concentrates it into a 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 end product is

sugar

.