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Explain the factors affecting the location of sugar industries.
Explain the factors affecting the localisation of sugar industry.
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The physical factors, like relief, climate, availability of raw material, and water, and human factors, like market and capital, affect the location of industries. To set up an industry, one needs raw material, and that has to be transported from somewhere. The raw material for industry and the final product affect the location of industry.
The following are the factors affecting the location of sugar industries.
- Raw material: Sugarcane is required for the sugar industry. A raw material is sugar beetroot. Sugarcane is the primary source of the majority of the tropical belt's sugar businesses. Due to its perishable nature, this raw material must be processed as soon as it is harvested. Because of this, sugar factories are typically found near areas that produce sugarcane.
- Transport facility: Bulky and perishable raw materials are used in the sugar business. Likewise, an efficient mode of transportation is required for the transfer of sugar from the factory to the market. Therefore, a good transport infrastructure is essential to the sugar business.
- Storage capacity: To store the sugar produced in the factory until it is delivered to the market, the sugar business requires a very big storage capacity. The sugar industry requires a very big capacity of warehousing facilities since sugar must be safeguarded from climate, floods, and unseasonable rains.
- Need of land: A significant quantity of land is needed for the building of sugar factories, the storage of completed sugar, and the transportation of sugarcane from the field. The delivery of energy is essential to the sugar business. Industries use the bagasse of sugarcane to create their own electricity. However, this proportion is quite small.
- Capital: The sugar industry requires a significant amount of funding. The majority of sugar plants in India are operated cooperatively, with the sugarcane growers serving as both stockholders and actual profit-sharing participants.
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