Nowadays sugar mostly comes from sugar beet, a root vegetable like a swede. However when this sugar cutter was in use sugar would have come from sugar cane, grown in the West Indies.

They used better types of sugar cane. From the late 18th century, the production of sugar became increasingly mechanised. In 1768, a steam engine was first used to power a sugar mill in Jamaica.

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a recent election meeting in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, he was compelled to make a promise relating to sugar, a diet staple. Farmers who ...