The picture illustrates how to produce sugar from sugar cane. Overall, this is a largely mechanical process and comprises two main stages, which are farming crops and processing the juice to create sugar.
The first stage begins with the sugar canes take from 12 to 18 months to fully grow, which is also the longest stage in the whole process. After that, they are either harvested by a harvester or by hand, which is much more labour-intensive.
During the wholly mechanical stage, these harvested sugar canes are crushed in a crushing machine, allowing the juice to be collected. The juice is then purified via a limestone filter, before being cooked under high temperatures to evaporate most of the liquid to become syrup. The syrup is then spun at a high enough speed in a centrifuge machine, which helps extract the sugar crystals from the syrup. Finally, these newly extracted sugar crystals are dried and cooled to form the final product: sugar.