Interviewtimes 
When we hear about sugarcane, we all may directly link it to Sugar, it’s quite obvious as sugarcane is the perennial crop which induces the manufacturing of refined white crystal sugar (the name too derived from the sugarcane plant) which we all use in our day-to-day lifestyle as an important ingredient in our kitchen.
But lets add a note to this point, do we really know that sugarcane is not just crop used to produce sugar, rather it is used to produce many by-product from the leftover waste materials of the sugarcane, which indeed is quite useful in our day to day lifestyle, and the other thing is it also bolsters the profit index of the sugar manufacturers, which again pertains to benefit farmers opting for sugarcane plantation.
Today India is the largest producer of sugar in the world beating its counterpart Brazil, during 2018/19 for a first time in 16 long years.Apprehending the fact that sugarcane is used as a primary substance for the production of sugar. Let us also have a tour across the other by-products which are derived from it and supports the claim that sugarcane is a multi-purpose crop.
Heat, energy and electricity from bagasse
Bagasse are the dry leftover materials after a sugarcane is crushed. It is generally pulpy, dry, and fibrous in nature. According to an estimate every 10 tones of sugarcane produces nearly three tones of wet bagasse after being crushed in a mill. Bagasse is used as a conventional bio fuel to generate heat, energy and electricity, which contributes as a primary source of fuel to a sugarcane industry.
Spirit from sugarcane
You will be curious to know that almost all sugarcane industries houses a distillery inside the factory premises, the use of that distillery is actually for the distillation of fermented sugarcane juice, which converts it to sugarcane spirit. Usually the spirits produce from the fermented sugarcane juice have a good alcohol percentage within it.
Organic Fertilizer from sugarcane press mud
The Press mud of sugarcane can act very essential to be used for composting and the production of organic fertilizer. One of the Sugarcane waste by-product known as the molasses, is the final high concentration of liquor leftover once the crystallization process of sugar is completely done. Molasses are known for its high properties utilization, thus inducing to support as one of the high quality raw material for fertilizer composting. The fertilizers produced from the by-product of sugarcane are fully organic and useful for farmers for high yield production.
