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

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is manufactured from

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cane.

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

The first step is

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to grow

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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

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chopping the canes,

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the mechanized method uses machines to cut the canes directly. The harvested canes are

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

Next,

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the purified juice is boiled in an evaporator to remove water, which concentrates it into a syrup. The syrup is

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

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crystals.

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

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.