Cane payment in Mauritius
Code (CO)MSI99P1015
Author (AU)Saint Antoine, J. D. de R. de
Title - English (ET)Cane payment in Mauritius
Document Type(DT)Periodical article
Date of publication (DP)1960
Series (SE)Proc. int. Soc. Sug. Cane Technol.
Source (SO)10, 163-167
Language of text (LT)En
Language of summaries (LS)En
Abstract (AB)Payment for sugar cane according to quality has been in force in Mauritius since 1940, and the method employed for assessing the quality of planters' canes and their share of commercial sugar has, with a few modifications, been successfully employed since then. The method is based primarily on the analysis of the planter's canes for fibre and of the first expressed juice for Brix and purity, and correlates these data with the factory figures from the crushing of all the canes for calculating the sucrose content of the planter's canes. Once the sucrose content is known, the recoverable sugar is calculated by using fixed efficiency standards laid down by the Central Arbitration and Control Board.
Descriptors - English (DE)SUGARCANE
PAYMENT BASIS
PROCESSING
CANE PAYMENT
Descriptors - Geographic (DG)MAURITIUS
Sort Key 1(K1)Cane payment
Date record entered (DA)1992-06-25
Language of analysis (LA)En
Affiliation (AF)Mauritius Sugar Industry Research Institute
Location (LO)LIB
Processing status (PS)CAT
MSIRI Staff (MS)ST