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Diversification of Sugar and Sugarcane Industry: Agro-industrial Alternatives

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This chapter highlights the current importance and further prospects of sugar and sugarcane as a renewable energy resource and agro-industrial alternative through diversification of the sugar industry. The current reality is that sugar cannot be considered as the sole product of a sugar mill factory. The different agro-wastes generated in sugar factories such as bagasse, molasses, pressmud, ashes and vinasse have diversified uses through value addition. Sugar industry is now a biomass-based industry which can, on the one hand, develop products for the food as well as non-food sector and, on the other, value-added products, fertilizer, bio-fuels, chemicals, etc. Various products with high nutritive and industrial value along with bio-product diversification and second-generation ethanol production and many other potential sugar industry products are mentioned. Future economics of these value-added products of sugarcane, especially bio-ethanol, depends on government policies.

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Abbreviations

GI:

Glycaemic index

SB:

Sugarcane bagasse

SCBA:

Sugarcane bagasse ash

SmF:

Submerged fermentation

SP:

Spathaspora passalidarum

SPM:

Sugarcane pressmud

SS:

Scheffersomyces stipitis

SS:

Sugarcane straw

SSC:

Solid-state cultivation

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    Sangeeta Srivastava

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  1. National Sugar Institute, Kalyanpur, Kanpur, India

    Narendra Mohan

  2. Department of Sugar Chemistry, U.P. Council of Sugarcane Research, Shahjahanpur, India

    Priyanka Singh

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Srivastava, S. (2020). Diversification of Sugar and Sugarcane Industry: Agro-industrial Alternatives. In: Mohan, N., Singh, P. (eds) Sugar and Sugar Derivatives: Changing Consumer Preferences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6663-9_10

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