Sugar industry - problems and prospects. (Pakistan)

In 1947 there were 2 small sugar mills producing total of 8000 tons of sugar annually. Now in 1993 there are 55 cane sugar mills producing more than 2.25 million tons of sugar annually, 4 cane sugar mills in NWFP have also facilities of processing sugarbeet and producing a total of about 40-50,000 tons of sugar annually.

New data seem to place the origin of sugarcane in the South Pacific about 8,000 years ago. Probably a native of New Guinea, the sugarcane plant moved northward to southeast Asia and India. Sugarcane plant moved northward to southeast Asia and India. Sugarca