Significance of sugar industry in national economy.(Industry Overview)

Significance of sugar industry in national economy

Sugarcane constitutes as one among 13 major crops being cultivated in Pakistan. It is third largest in terms of area under the different crops. It is one of the major cash crops. Likewise, sugar industry belongs distinctly to 12 large-scale industries by now well established in Pakistan. It is the second largest after cotton textile within the large-scale agro-based manufacturing sub-sector in Pakistan. This explains at a glance the position of definite prominence carved by the sugar industry in the economic milieu of P