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Give a reasoned account of the difference between the sugar industry of North and Peninsular India.

  • UPSC 2021
  • Industry

Sugar is the classic weight-losing, perishable industry: 100 tonnes of cane give only 10-12 tonnes of sugar, and cut cane sheds sucrose daily, so a mill sits inside a tight crushing radius, 20-25 km by cart, now 70-75 km by truck. That distance-decay logic, which Johann Heinrich von Thünen formalised for perishables around a market,…

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