Sugarcane is crushed in a sugar factory that primarily extracts sugar syrup and fiber which is called bagasse. Bagasse is used to generate electricity, the excess power generates is then sold to the electricity companies.
Sugar industry is poised to change drastically over the coming years from cyclical to structural.
We can fall in the footsteps of Brazil which produces ethanol and sugar equally from sugarcane and reduce the overcapacity issue of industry.
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Sugarcane is crushed in a sugar factory that primarily extracts sugar syrup and fiber which is called bagasse. Bagasse is used to generate electricity, the excess power generates is then sold to the electricity companies.
Molasses can be further processed to generate ethanol and alcohol
The sugar industry is heavily regulated by the government as there are only 550 sugar factories that support the livelihood of around 11 crore people directly or indirectly.
The sugar industry has always been cyclical, impacted by the overproduction of sugar..
The cyclical nature of the industry is poised to change due to the ethanol opportunity, the government has announced an ethanol blending target of 20% to be achieved by 2025
Price trend of ERP, SAP, and MSP over the years:
Cane arrears trend:
Indian sugar companies have been struggling primarily due to more supply than demand in the local market and they are unable to export as international sugar prices are lower than their cost of production, this makes export uneconomical.
Exports also have become remunerative despite cut in export subsidy by 44%
Sugar companies have three options to utilize sugar syrup:
•Option 1: Heating the syrup thrice generating C heavy molasses, yielding 11%-11.5% sugar
•Option 2: Heating the syrup twice generating B heavy molasses, yielding 9%-9.5% sugar
This leads to the following yield and revenue generation per tonne of sugarcane:
Indian sugar industry’s rough business split is 60%-65% sugar, 20%-25% ethanol, and 10%-15% electricity generation. This is bound to change due to the higher cyclicality of sugar prices with large working capital requirements as compared to ethanol production..
This sugar industry in Brazil (which is most advanced) diverts sugarcane production in the following manner:
https://t.co/ADtGvps5qN
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Further Examination of the Motif near PRRA Reveals Close Structural Similarity to the SEB Superantigen as well as Sequence Similarities to Neurotoxins and a Viral SAg.
The insertion PRRA together with 7 sequentially preceding residues & succeeding R685 (conserved in β-CoVs) form a motif, Y674QTQTNSPRRAR685, homologous to those of neurotoxins from Ophiophagus (cobra) and Bungarus genera, as well as neurotoxin-like regions from three RABV strains
(20) (Fig. 2D). We further noticed that the same segment bears close similarity to the HIV-1 glycoprotein gp120 SAg motif F164 to V174.
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In (B), the segment S680PPRAR685 including the PRRA insert and highly conserved cleavage site *R685* is shown in van der Waals representation (black labels) and nearby CDR residues of the TCRVβ domain are labeled in blue/white
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Sequence Identity %
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Y674 - QTQTNSPRRA - R685
Similar to neurotoxins from Ophiophagus (cobra) & Bungarus genera & neurotoxin-like regions from three RABV strains
T678 - NSPRRA- R685
Superantigenic core, consistently aligned against bacterial or viral SAgs