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XVI. By-productsFigure 4: Industrial Alcohol Produced at Sugar MillsCorporate Social ResponsibilitySugar production results in over 100 byproductsincluding alcohol, vinegar,confectioneries, animal feed, poultry feed,fish feed, paper, chipboard, win-board,hard board and plywood. Tops are usedas fodder for livestock and trash as fuel. 46Molasses, a by-product of sugar, can beused to manufacture industrial and fuelgrade ethanol. However, in Pakistan forthan often this by-product is used to feedanimals or is exported as a raw material since only nineteen sugar mills havedistilleries utilizing molasses for the production of ethanol.Figure 5: By-product (Mud) Extraction at a Sugar MillManagers reported that there are fourtypes of products from sugarcane in thesugar industry; sugar is our main productother three are molasses, bagasse (whichused as fuel) and Mud (use as fertilizer).40 to 45% of molasses is utilized formaking alcohol which is then exportedmainly, it was noted that some industriesdo not make alcohol and export molasses.Some mills in Pakistan produce nearly2500 kilowatt electricity for their own use with the help of steam. Moreover, thewater is reused as well; the same water is rotated in the process. PSMA officersboasted that all sugar mills produce their own electricity for its own purpose; headded that the Government doesn’t give them permission to produce electricityon a larger level, “we have presented in front of different departments proposing that we canhelp in the energy shortage of the country by contributing electricity but no attention wasrewarded to the proposal”.46Pakkisan.comy 44