Sugar is an important commodity in the African context, and there are numerous challenges and opportunities that exist in Africa for that industry. Africa is quite a big place and it encompasses a large number of different countries, cultures, weather patterns and soil variety. I will restrict my presentation to the area which is know as the Southern African Development Community (SADC), which ...

OBJECTIVE To model the overall and income specific effect of a 20% tax on sugar sweetened drinks on the prevalence of overweight and obesity in the UK. DESIGN Econometric and comparative risk assessment modelling study. SETTING United Kingdom. POPULATION Adults aged 16 and over. INTERVENTION A 20% tax on sugar sweetened drinks. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The primary outcomes were the overa...

The present investigation has been undertaken in sweet corn to carry out the combining ability analysis and to estimate heterosis of yield and yield contributing characters. Eight divergent parents were selected and crossed in diallel fashion excluding reciprocals during kharif, 2010. The resulting 28 crosses along with parents and a standard check Sugar 75 and Madhuri were evaluated in Randomi...

Previous studies in Australian children/adolescents and adults examining added sugar (AS) intake were based on now out-of-date national surveys. We aimed to examine the AS and free sugar (FS) intakes and the main food sources of AS among Australians, using plausible dietary data collected by a multiple-pass, 24-h recall, from the 2011-12 Australian Health Survey respondents (n 8202). AS and FS ...

Sugarcane plays an important role in the government of Tanzania’s aim becoming sugar-sufficient; however, sugar production remains low country despite numerous interventions undertaken by successive governments. The study adopted vector error correction model (VECM) to examine acreage supply response sugarcane out-growers changes price and non-price factors using time-series data spanning 30 ye...

The main raw material in the produce of palm sugar comes from boiling sap water which is taken flower bunches extraction process and collected through tapping process. In this industry, processing can be done two ways, namely conventionally modernly (using machines), stages that are passed these methods almost same, only difference being tools used. This study aims to determine How using conven...

The present investigation has been undertaken in sweet corn to carry out the combining ability analysis and to estimate heterosis of yield and yield contributing characters. Eight divergent parents were selected and crossed in diallel fashion excluding reciprocals during kharif, 2010. The resulting 28 crosses along with parents and a standard check Sugar 75 and Madhuri were evaluated in Randomi...

to evaluate the freezing tolerance in sugar beet (beta vulgaris l.), seven cultivars (suprema, jolge, monotunno, giada, pp8, sbsi1, palma) were exposed to the 10 temperatures (0, -2, -4, -6, -8, -10, -12, -14, -16 and -18˚c) .the study carried out as a factorial arrangement of treatments based on randomized completely design with three replications at college of agriculture, ferdowsi university...

We studied the global (i.e. overall) structure of microwave-assisted alkaline soluble polysaccharides (ASP) isolated from fresh sugar beet pulp. The objective was to minimize the disassembly and possibly the degradation of these polysaccharides during extraction. Prior to ASP microwave-assisted extraction (MAE), pectin was removed and isolated by MAE. Two sub fractions, ASP I and ASP II were is...

The severity of Zn deficiency increased with increase in soil exchangeable sodium percentage (ESP) with salt sensitive variety M1-48 scoring 6 at ESP 62 as against only score 3 by salt tolerant variety Pokkali under similar soil conditions. Strikingly, zinc contents were much higher in salt tolerant variety than in salt sensitive one. Zinc application increased zinc concentration in the roots b...