Introduction.In any balanced system of food production,the production of sugar must form one of the important items.The demand and consumption of sugar is increasing and we are feeling more and more the deficiency of sugar in this Province,whose quota has to supplemented from the other Provinces.Sugarcane cultivation is mainly confin- ed to the tropical belt but in this country.its cultivation as well as the sugar industry is developed to a greater extent in the sub-tropical North India than in the tropical Southern Peninsula.Considering the favourable soil,climate and varietal conditions for sugarcane in the Madras Province,the white sugar industry must be said to be still very back- ward when comparred t the other Provinces as shown below:
А.В. et al. (Sat,) studied this question.