sale ay rum. and ipe Rua refining alone has not paved suffi- | 
cantly profitable to maintain a fac tory. If this had been the case, 
í appears to be no reason a the industry should n have been 
Denm taken up by private capitalists 
.4, Some of the main ipei against which the «dsitry has to 
s contend od believed to be these ;— 
A (a) T Soon of sugar-cane is limited by the supply not only 
er for irrigation but also of manure. 
es (e) yv airian in India is confined to small €: or holdings! 
Ks each cultivator who is able to grow the crop at all can only 2 
_ + find manure enough for a small area. R i less than half EU 
am aere, = sugar-cane. The plots of sugar-cane are therefore d 
greatly scattered even in a canal-irrigated tr. act. a 
©) A central fsetüty has accordingly to bring in its supplies of eane Yi 
in small quantities over varying distances, in many eases the n 
distance being great. 
(a : Aks aoa of canes over a long distance, even in a climate 
like that of the pev is detrimental to the juice for i 
purpose of sugar makin t is much more so in India, 
where the canes ripen it the s 
xoig ibus the insi 
is driest, and suffer, here, the maximum of in 
e) The Mauritius system of growing eg: canes at inte yale’ is not 
adapted to greater part o India, where, in order to prevent 
the ingress pe dry air into the fields, small canes have to be 
grown in close contact, 
¢ f. ) ~ amount of cane which 
ca sugar yo exports, Ther: is, therefore, no sufficient. induce- 
ment to eapital to embark on. the more difficult and geris 
. System. 
I A further obstacle to sugar attain 
ial rat ndition 
the indigenous pro process. 
eee in naue to e i 
noted we are T 
eu = State to establish 
edie have, iim rien uni pie. duos 
“question and may eri be — to a 
. 77. We are also — to adi 
exper oat in those comy 
