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

The given diagram illustrates the procedure of

sugar

production from

sugar

cane

.

Overall

, it is evident that

this

process contains 7 various operations . It commences with growing the

sugar

cane

and concludes with drying and cooling the

sugar

. Regarding the first operation , which is growing

sugar

cane

, it usually takes from 12 to 18 months for a

sugar

cane

to be mature enough to harvest . After that , the harvesting begins and is divided into 2 stages . Either it is done manually by humans or by a heavy machine which is more convenient . From here , the manufacturing begins by crushing the

sugar

cane

in another machine which produces juice .

Then

this

juice is collected in large bowls and is purified using a limestone filter. The final product of the previous stage is

then

poured into an evaporator which turns juice into syrup by heating the mixture . After being evaporated, a substance is divided into two parts in a centrifuge:

sugar

crystals and syrup.

Finally

, natural

sugar

is obtained after drying and cooling the crystals.