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The International Sugar Journai 1964 Vol.66 No.786 xvii International VOL. 66 No. 786 PAGE Suc:ar Notes and Comments I73 Cuban sugar purchases. Eur~Pea~ beei ~rea estimates. Australian sugar crop, 1963. Nigeria sugar project. .tournaI Indian sugar situation. Agricullural Articles: I.S.S.C.T,-Congress- in Mauritius 175 Tbe Study of Sugar Cane Diseases in Natal 177 Editor and Manager: Sugar Cane Breeding at Barbados 177 D. LEIGHTON, B.Sc., F.R.I.C. Agricultural Abstracts .. 176. 178-180 Assistant Editor: General Articles: M. G. COPE, A.I.L.(Ruof.) The R.T. Rotating Pre-Scalder (part I) 181 By G. Tibo and A. Smet Tbe Isolation of Raffinose from Cane Final Molasses 185 B. W. W. Binkley Panel of Referees The D.d.S. Cane Diffuser 187 L. D. BAVER, By Leif L. Nielsen Director Emtritus and Consulting Scientist, Experim~"1 Station, Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association. Sugar-House Praclice 190 Notes on the installation and maintenance of pH A. CARRUTHERS, controllers. Pressure and vacuum filtration of sugar liquors. An evaluation of the phosphoric acid-lime Director of Research, British Sugar Corporation LId. treatment of raw liquor at Victorias etc. F. M. CHAPMAN, Bect Factory Notes. ............. 194 Beet storage in piles. Test of a raw juice purification Technical Adviser, Tate & Lyle Ltd. scheme proposed by A. F. Yakimov. Test of counter­ current pre-liming in a laboratory column apparatus. J. EISNER, Test of. a BMA continuous tower diffuser with a Sugar Technology Consultant. throughput of 1500 metric tons of beet per day etc. New Books and Bulletins .. 197 P. HONIG, The Australian Sugar Year Book. Vol. 23. 1964. Consulting Sugar Technologist. Memoria de la V Conferencia Internacional de Tecnicos y Consultores del Instituto TecnoJ6gico Azucarero Veracruzano, 1961. Sugar elc. J. CAMPBELL MACDONALD, Laboratory Methods and Chemical Reports .. 198 Chief Tuhnical Officer, British Sugar Corporal/Ol. Ltd. Standardization of Peruvian raw sugars. Mechanical arrangements for evaluating the decolorizing power O. WIKLUND, of solid adsorbents. A further study of sulphate in Swedish Su/(ar Corporation. the refinery elc. By-Products . 201 Bagasse briquelling plant. Sucrochemical applica­ tions. Linkage of sugars with long-ehain compounds via amino groups. The partial acetylation ofsugars etc. Patents .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 202, Evaporation of (sugar) solutions. Rotary drums for Published by drying or heat treating or cooling materials. Top Tbe International Sugar Journal Ltd. covers for (beet) hoppers. Production of itaconic acid. Crushing cellular materials. etc Central Chambers, The Broadway. London, W.5. Trade Notices .. .. 205 Babcock bagasse-fired boilers in Mexico. Automatic Telephone: EALing·1535 sack and drum tippler. "ElectroMatic" vibrating Cable: Sugaphilos, London.' W.5. screen. Vibrating feeder !nd hOl)per etc. International Society of Sugar Cane Technologists 207 European Beet Area Estimates 208 Stock Exchange quotations 208 Annual Subocr!ptlon: 320 Od or $S.OO post fl'H Brevities .. 208 S....le Cop"': 211 6d or 45 ..... p.... postage Index to Advertisers.. xxx Aguirre, PLACE Puerto Rico Unloading sugar cane PROBLEM from railway wagons Liftaside Tippler SOLUTION by S&H This Liftaside Tippler is one of two recently designed, built and installed in Puerto Rico by Strachan & Henshaw. Loaded wagons of 24 tons Leaders ill gross weight are tipped and returned in 120 mechanical seconds. A side clamping mechanism ensures handling that the top of the wagon is unobstructed, allowing easy discharge of the sugar cane. These two Tipplers are examples of the purpose-built sugar handling plant installed in many countries throughout the world. Full details and illustrated leaflets are available from: 8·tp.a " •• MANUFACTURERS OF WAGON HANDLING EQUIPMENT, TRANSPORTERS AND PURPOSE·BUILT MECHANICAL HANDLING PLANT FOR STEELWORKS, NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS AND OTHER INDUSTRIAL INSTALLATIONS ASHTON WORKS· P.O. BOX 103 • BRISTOL 3 . Telephone: BRISTOL 664677 BHS-IO THE INTERNATIONAL SUGAR JOURNAL VOL. LXVI JUNE 1964 No. 786 NOTES AND COMMENTS Cuban sugar purchases'. year and it would not be surprising to find that the Cuba, historically a seller of sugar, surprised the competing claims of the grain, animal foodstuffs and trade by entering the market as a buyer to fulfil livestock industries result in a very much smaller earlier commitments and bought through a London area being allocated to the growing of sugar beet Trade house a cargo of U.K. refined sugar for October than is at present being mentioned." shipment to Bulgaria and an "omnibus" cargo of Details of the estimates appear elsewhere in this raws from a French house for shipment to Mainland issue. China. It is rumoured that two additional cargoes of raws have been purchased for ultimate delivery to *** Mainland China, but these have not been confirmed. Australian sugar crop, 1963'. No prices have been divulged. Outturn of sugar from the 1963 Queensland cane Particular surprise was evoked that the refined sugar crop of I1,501,807 tons was 1,651,833 tons 94 n.t. is required to be shipped during October when sugar and 75,589 tons n.t. sugar was produced from European production is normally in full swing but the New South Wales crop of 618,4I1 tons of cane. it has since been reported that the Bulgarian harvest Australian sugar production from the 1963 season is expected to be late this year and the sugar is needed was therefore 1,727,422 tons, which compares with the to bridge the gap before domestic production becomes record Australian figure of 1,849,261 tons in the available'. 1962 season. *** *** Nigeria sugar project". European beet area estimates. An integrated sugar plantation and refinery First estimates have been published by F. O. Licht project, with an initial capacity of 60,000 tons, is K.G.' of the area planted to beet for the 1964/65 proposed by the Government of Eastern Nigeria. campaign. The total is put at 7,579,500 hectares, an increase of about 1,300,000 ha over the 1963/64 A report on this, "PreliminaryStudy ofthe Potential area. Of this increase, however, no less than one for a Sugar Industry in Eastern Nigeria", has been million ha is reckoned as the increase in area for the prepared by Arthur D. Little, Inc., as part of a U.S.S.R., while most Western European countries programme of technical assistance sponsored by the are shown to have increases of between 5 and 12%. U.S. Agency for International Development. The Roumania is expected to increase her beet area by Go~ernment of ~astern Nigeria is looking for foreign 7% and Poland by 20% but only very small increases capItal and partICIpatIon by a reputable, experienced are expected in the rest of Eastern Europe with the technical partner. exception of the U.S.S.R. Consumption of imported refined sugar, the report Of the last-mentioned country's 1,000,000 ha notes, has increased almost 5-fold in the past 10 years. increase estimate, C. Czarnikow Ltd.' write: "The Demand may go as high as I15,OOO tons by 1968 official plan provides for 4·3 million hectares to be and 150,000 tons by 1971. The following shows the sown to beet in the Soviet Union this season, compared rising trend of refined sugar imports for Nigeria (in with 3·3 million hectares in 1963. We very much tons): 1945 2,689; 1947 2,377; 1952 13,551; 1957 doubt whether so large an area will be possible. It 32,344; 1962 73,191. is known, of course, that the crop in 1963/64 fell 1 Willett & Gray, 1964,88, 186. far below expectations and some steps will presumably 'C. Czarnikow Ltd., Sugar Review, 1964, (659), 83. be taken to attain a higher level of production from 'International Sugar Rpt., 1964,96, (II), 1-6. , Sugar Review, 1964, (658), 79. the coming campaign. Nevertheless, other crops also 'Australian Sugar J., 1964,55. 713. suffered considerably in the U.S.S.R. during the past " Willett & Gray, 1964, 88, 106. 173 June THE INTERNATIONAL SUGAR JOURNAL 1964 No white sugar is manufactured in Nigeria. The Indian sugar situation'. country's first and only sugar mill is now being built It is an apparent anomaly of the current statistical at Bacita, near Jebba, in the I10rin province of picture that India, one of the foremost sugar pro­ Northern Nigeria. This enterprise is expected to ducers, should still have one of the world's lowest begin harvesting cane from its own plantation and levels of domestic consumption. Several countries manufacturing white granulated sugar in November are now geared to produce more than one million 1964. An estate of 6,380 acres is to be planted and tons each year but only five or six can hope to exceed the mill is expected to reach its full production the two million tons mark. India is well above this capacity of 25,000 to 30,000 tons by 1967. figure; by 31st March production from the 1963/64 crop had amounted to 2,331,000 tons, and it is antici­ The operation at Bacita cannot be greatly expanded, pated that by the time the campaign ends this figure however, until the first Niger River dam has been will be increased by a further 275,000 tons to achieve built and associated flood-control measures provide a total output in the region of 2·6 million tons. additional land for sugar cane planting. Dam construction will take 6 years and no starting date A shortage of foreign exchange has presented the for the project has been announced. Even assuming Indian authorities with a considerable problem, and that the northern output doubles by 1971, there would it has been decided that sugar exports must be main­ still be an unfilled demand for 90,000 to 100,000 tons.
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