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Production of plantation white sugar or mill white sugar was first established in Java by end of the nineteenth century by carbonation process. Later on by beginning of the present century use of sulphar dioxide was introduced, which brought down the consumption of lime in cane juice clarification in the process of manufacture of white sugar from sugar cane. In India this process was introduced in the thirties, when a number of cane sugar mills were established following the protection granted to this industry. Since then considerable progress has been made in the past six decades in the field of Science and Technology of cane sugar manufacture and the techniques being adopted in modern sugar mills in India are fairly advanced. Remarkable strides have been made in different process operations in the recent past with a view to achieving improvements in productivity, efficiencies and quality of white sugar in the Indian Industry. The present book aims at covering theoretical and practical aspects of each and every operation involved in the present process of white sugar manufacture fr