Abstract
India is the largest consumer and second largest producer of sugar in the world next to Brazil. Among the sugar yielding crops like sugarcane, sugar beet, palms and sorghum, sugarcane is the second most important agro-industrial crop of the country. Jaggery and khandsari, the traditional Indian sweeteners are the natural mixture of sugar and molasses. If pure clarified sugarcane juice is boiled, what is left as solid is jaggery, which contains 65–85% sucrose. Khandsari sugar is a finely granulated and crystallized which contains 94 to 98% sucrose. Sugarcane is considered as one of the best converter of solar energy into biomass and sugar. The biomass which contains fiber, lignin, pentosans and pith can be converted into value added products by application of suitable chemical, biochemical and microbial technologies. The sugar industry by-products are vast potential reserves for human and animal consumption as well as capable of providing energy as renewable source.
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