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 given

process

illustrates how sugar is produced from

sugarcane

. From an

overall

perspective, it can be seen that the entire

process

includes seven stages, beginning with the growing of

sugarcane

over 12-18 months. The

process

involves harvesting, crushing, purifying, evaporating, and

finally

drying and cooling the sugar. In the initial steps,

sugarcane

is grown for 12-18 months. Once mature, it is ready for harvesting, where workers either cut the

sugarcane

manually or use machines. After harvesting, the

sugarcane

is crushed to extract the juice. The extracted juice

then

passes through a purification stage where it is filtered to remove impurities. Following purification, the juice is heated in an evaporator, causing it to thicken into a syrup. In the next stage, the syrup is separated in a centrifuge, which extracts sugar crystals from the syrup.

Finally

, these crystals are dried and cooled in a large container to complete the

process

.