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Several business opportunities - component parts of the Integrated Developing Scheme described in Africans, Stop Being Poor! are listed in following table.
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a-
SHEA BUTTER (5,
6, 7,
11, 12,
13)
b- BLUE GOLD (14,
15, 16,
17, 18,
19)
c- FREEZE-DRIED PAPAIN (20,
21, 22
and here)
d-
KENAF (23,
24)
e- VEGETABLE OIL (25,
26, 27,
28)
f- CEREALS (30,
31, 32,
33)
g- FRUITS (34,
35, 36,
37, 38,
39, 40,
42, 43,
44, 45,
46)
h- ESSENTIAL OILS (47,
48, 49,
50, 51,
52)
i- ROOTS & TUBERS (54,
55, 56,
57, 58,
59, 60,
61, 62,
63, 64)
j-
FOWL BREEDING (66,
67, 68,
69, 70,
71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76)
k- FISH FARMING (78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87)
l- BIOMASS ENERGY (89, 90, 91, 92)
m- SUGAR CANE & PRODUCTS (93,
94, 95,
96, 97,
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SUGAR CANE & PRODUCTS: PART
V - PRODUCTS MANUFACTURED FROM SUGAR-CANE
JUICE
This
series' first issue outlined the importance of sugar-cane
as Economic
Catalyst to developing. The current delivery
deals briefly with the several products that derived from fresh
sugar-cane juice.
Sugarcane
contains about 70% water, in which sucrose and other
substances are held in solution, forming about 88% by weight of juice in the
stem. The remaining 12% represents the insoluble cane fibre component.]
Sugarcane juice is used for making white sugar, brown sugar (Khandsari),
Jaggery (Gur)
and ethanol. The main byproducts of sugar industry are bagasse and molasses.
Molasses, the chief by-product, is the main raw material for alcohol and
thus for alcohol-based industries. Bagasse is also a good raw-material to
manufacture paper industry. Besides,
some sugar mills use bagasse as fuel to generating power.
Sugarcane juice can be concentrated to produce a liquid that contains high
level of "natural" policosanols
- an ingredient that helps lower bad cholesterol and increase good cholesterol
in blood. This is a business opportunity to setup national pharmaceuticals
firms in African countries. The
market is huge worldwide, with a ready market in African countries.
There
are American patents that cover products manufactured from sugarcane and
sugarcane juice. Visit
this link and make research
- BROWN CANE
SUGAR VERSUS WHITE SUGAR
Most people think that a pack of sugar is similar to the other one as far
as it is white sugar or brown sugar. That is not true because
sugar can be manufactured either from beet root or from sugarcane.
And true unrefined brown sugar is manufactured from sugarcane and is brown
through and through. In the contrary, brown sugar produced from beet and
from refined sugarcane are just coated with molasses and when you do rub
a sugar cube thus produced, it is white inside.
 Further, unrefined brown
cane sugar (see picture at left side of this paragraph) is a
natural combination of sugar and molasses, produced without any added "artificial" colorings
and flavorings, that also contains trace minerals and nutriments (present
in sugarcane.) Therefore, it is healthier and more nutritive than refined
sugar (from beet or sugarcane.)
White sugar, in the contrary, is pure carbohydrate, 99.5% sucrose.
It is stripped of all its natural components: water, minerals and vitamins. These
empty calories provide absolutely no nutritional benefit. In short, it
had been purified to become white and more appealing (commercially) to consumers.
A non-necessary purification process, which increases costs of production.
The fact is,
the more refined our food is, the more our bodies have to compensate by drawing
the missing nutrients from other sources. These can be other foods eaten at the
same time, or from the body's own stores in tissues and bones.
Therefore, when we eat refined (white) sugar, B vitamins, minerals such
as calcium, iron, phosphorus and other nutrients are "pumped" from
our own healthy cells - for compensation sake.
In other words, as the alkaline
minerals are depleted from the body, one becomes more and more acidic. The bones
weaken progressively as calcium is constantly withdrawn from them to accommodate
our sweet tooth and the resulting decline in the body's pH (acidity).
One
reason sugar gives us intense cravings is that our bodies are looking for these
missing nutrients. Then, we often look for more sugar to fix it,
which makes the cycle worse and leads to perpetual snacking and binges. It also
leads to chronic over-stimulation of the endocrine system,
which detects that the body has just loaded up with calories, but can't find
the nutrients that should naturally accompany them. [Source]
It is ironic that unrefined brown cane sugar is labeled as the "poor man's
sugar" when
it should be the other way round. White sugar has truly no nutritive value and
is the one that should be labeled as the "commercial-influenced
man's sugar."
One can say that a country, which population are fed with unrefined sugarcane
brown sugar would have better chance to remaining healthier. And as we know,
health is the prerequisite to developing.
Based on data
exposed in previous delivery about a small-scale sugarcane
juice production facility, it is possible to setup medium-scale
operations to produce unrefined sugarcane brown sugar - evaporating
sugarcane juice. The process is a simple one that is used since ages in Asian
countries (China and India) to provide a healthy and nutritive product to
the populations.
Next delivery (June
15, 2007) will introduce a medium-scale operation to produce unrefined
brown sugar - from
sugarcane juice.
| MORE
ON SUGAR CANE & PRODUCTS |
1-
Sugar
Cane Industry, The (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography)
by J.H. Galloway (Paperback Sep 23, 2005)
2- The
House Surrounded by Sugar
by Leanna Williams (Paperback - Mar 8, 2006)
3- From
Cane to Sugar (Start to Finish)
by Jill Braithwaite (Hardcover - Aug 2004)
4- Cane
Sugar Handbook: A Manual for Cane Sugar Manufacturers and Their Chemists
by James C. P. Chen and Chung Chi Chou (Hardcover - Nov 8, 1993)
5-
Sugar
Cane
by Alex Morgan (Paperback - Aug 28, 2002)
6-
The
Sugar cane factory: A catechism of cane sugar manufacture for the use of beginners
by Frederic I Scard (Unknown Binding - 1913)
7- Sugar
Cane Cultivation and Management
by Henk, Bakker and H., Bakker (Hardcover - Jan 1, 1999)
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8- Sugar
Cane (Tropical Agriculturalist)
by R. Fauconnier (Paperback - Feb 24, 1993)
9- Management
Accounting for the Sugar Cane Industry (Sugar Sciences, Vol 8)
by A. E. Fok Kam (Hardcover - Mar 1988)
10- The
nature and properties of the sugar cane
With practical directions for the improvement of its cultures, and the
manufacture of its products)
by George Richardson Porter (Unknown Binding - 1831)
11- Sugar-cane
and Sugar Industry in Nigeria
The Bitter Sweet Lessons
by Abdul-latif D. Busari (Paperback - Nov 2005)
12- The
2007-2012 World Outlook for Sugar Cane Mill Products
by Philip M. Parker (Paperback - Oct 13, 2006)
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