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DATE SUGAR INDUSTRY IN BENGAL. 



Including first and second sugar and molasses and taking the 

 average of three factories for 10 years past we get the following 

 figures : 



Weight of gur. 



100 



Weight of 1st and 



second sugar. 



41 



Weight of molasses. 



50-5 



Wastage. 



8'5 



Of the 41 per cent, of raw sugar obtained 29'5 are recovered in 

 the first sugar and the remainder, ITS, in the second sugar. 



To shew how constant is the amount of sugar obtained from the 

 gur the following figures are given shewing the extreme variation 

 in the three factories over the past 10 years. From 100 parts of 

 gur the amount of sugar obtained varied from 37 '5 to 43 '7 and of 

 molasses from 48 to 55 '3. 



Each of the three factories above-mentioned refines from 9,000 

 to 12,000 bazar maunds of gur annually. 



The price paid for gur by the refiners varies considerably from 

 year to year. If raw sugar sells at a good price one year, then gur 

 next year goes up in price. With a decrease in the selling price of 

 raw sugar there follows next year a decrease in the price of gur. 



Prices of Gur and Molasses. The following table sets out for 

 12 years, the price at which gur was bought and sugar and molasses 

 sold by three refineries in Jessore District : 



1 One katcha maund = 40 seers of 60 tolas each; one pucca maund equals 40 seers of 

 80 tolas each and one pucca or bazar maund equals 82'2 Ibs, 



