The Imperial Council of Agricultural Research the Open Pan System of White Sugar Manufacture

1 per maund of cane crushed in Centrals. Appreciating the importance of the khandsari industry and realising that it will in any case be a long time before the factory industry of this country will have developed sufficiently to diplace the indigenous and the imported sugar the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research took up the question of improving the industry. [...] For want of time the second rab was not machined before the close of the experiments and hence the anticipated yield of sugar from it was calculated on the same basis as in the case of the small-scale experiments. [...] The efficiency of the process (that is the proportion of sugar extracted in -first and second sugars calculated as a percentage of the total quantity of sugar present in the juice) is 71'45. [...] One of the improvements incorporated in the Bhopal system is that the perchha ' or the pan in which the concentration of juice is finished is not permanently fixed on the furnace as in the ordinary Rohilkhand bel. [...] Table VII gives the results of the tests and the dimensions of the pans of each bel.