Sugarcane is a plant grown for raw materials for sugar and vetsin. This plant can only grow in potentially tropical areas such as Indonesia, this is one of the reasons that causes Indonesia to manage sugarcane fields. Sugarcane is one type of grass that is best known as a sugar-making material.
What is the process of making granulated sugar?
Usually the process of making granulated sugar is done by:
Sugarcane stalks that have been harvested are squeezed using a press machine in a sugar factory.
After that the sap or sugarcane juice is filtered, cooked, and bleached so that it becomes the granulated sugar we know.
From the process of making sugar cane, 5% sugar will be produced, 90% sugar cane bagasse and the rest is molasses and water.
What are the benefits of sugarcane to society?
Sugarcane has many benefits in people's lives, what are the benefits?
Here are the benefits of sugarcane:
Sugarcane leaves can be used as feed for large livestock such as cattle, buffalo, and goats.
In addition, dry sugarcane leaves (or in Javanese it is called dadhok) is a biomass that has a fairly high calorific value.
So it is often used as fuel for cooking, especially for women who live in rural areas. In addition to saving kerosene which is increasingly expensive, fuel from sugarcane leaves also heats up quickly.
The water can be used for the basic ingredients for making sugar and vatsin. Besides being used as an ingredient for making sugar, sugarcane juice is also often sold directly as sugarcane ice by the public. Sugarcane drink is in great demand because it can be a refreshing drink to relieve fatigue, sugarcane juice is good for body health because it can increase glucose.
The skin can be processed into compost.
The pulp can be processed into coarse tissue paper, and can also be used as a mixture for the manufacture of pharmaceutical animal feed.
In the energy conversion of sugar mills, sugarcane leaves and bagasse are also used for boiler fuel, the steam is used for production processes and power generation.
How to Grow Sugar Cane.
Actually cultivation and sugarcane is difficult. Even if they could be called sugarcane stalks that were thrown everywhere on the ground, they could grow on their own. However, to get maximum results, of course, requires the right cultivation process to produce a good ransom.
How to cultivate sugar cane, the picture is as follows:
1. Land preparation for planting
Before starting a cultivation business, of course, the first thing that needs to be done is to prepare the land for cultivation purposes later. The most ideal land for sugarcane cultivation is located at an altitude between 500 to 1200 meters above sea level.
Sugarcane is very suitable to be planted in land that is rarely found but also not too arid. Because if it grows in areas such as lowlands close to sea level, sugar cane will not taste sweet (less sweet).
On the other hand, if sugarcane grows in areas that lack sugarcane juice, it will not be able to reach its maximum size and it will be difficult to grow large (small and thick). This is because sugarcane roots are very sensitive to deficiencies in the soil, so watering and drainage must be considered.
prospective land for cultivation is plowed with tractors or by using cultivation if the amount of cultivation is not too large, this is not increased to increase humus and also reduce the level of hardness in the soil, because sugarcane grows by spreading fibers which function to take air and soil nutrients, so if the soil where the cultivation is too hard will inhibit the process of spreading root fibers and also absorption of air.
2. Selection of sugarcane seeds.
Usually sugarcane in the ground by using the stem of the broodstock.
Based on the seeds, there are several types of sugarcane seeds that are often planted, namely:
a. mule seeds:
This seed comes from a nursery consisting of two-eyed and three-eyed mules. What is meant by begal is a seed that is cut with a seed length of between 2 to 3 eyes (or in Javanese it is often called ros). This seed is very suitable and especially for land that lacks water.
b. Seeds of Deder or Dederan
Seedlings that come from nurseries (Java = deder) stem cuttings are made with the following objectives:
1. Zoom in on the meter
2. As a place to plant plants that have been waiting for land preparation for planting
3. Minimize the risk of replanting because in general the seeds from the nursery can grow right away
4. As planting material for dead plant embroidery.