[Illustration: WATER-DRIVEN CENTRIFUGALS, MARHOURAH FACTORY, INDIA] [Illustration: CHAMPARAN SUGAR COMPANY, LTD., BARRAH CHAKIA, CHAMPARAN, INDIA] As to the future of the industry in India, the theory is held by many that with modern scientific methods governing cultivation and manufacture, that country would be able not only to provide for its own requirements, but would be a competitor for export trade in the markets of the world. If such a condition is to be brought about, it will not be by improvement in the cane fields and the manufacturing plants alone. There are other problems to be overcome before there can be any great change for the better,—the stubborn opposition of the natives to innovations, the extreme smallness of individual holdings, poverty, lack of initiative and co-operation,—these are the main obstacles in the way of a material increase in the present enormous production, and they will not be easily surmounted. CONCLUSION The sugar crops of the world for the year 1915-16 aggregated 16,558,863 long tons, of which 10,571,079 tons were cane. The following table shows the production of the various countries: TONS NORTH AMERICA United States Hawaii 545,000 Louisiana 122,768 Texas 1,000 Porto Rico 400,000 Cuba 3,000,000 British West Indies Trinidad 55,000 Barbados 50,000 Jamaica 15,000 Other British West Indies 30,000 French West Indies Martinique 40,000 Guadeloupe 40,000 Danish West Indies St. Croix 11,000 Santo Domingo 120,000 Mexico 75,000 Central America 30,000 SOUTH AMERICA British Guiana 110,000 Surinam 13,000 Venezuela 10,000 Peru 200,000 Argentina 155,000 Brazil 194,000 TOTAL IN AMERICA 5,216,768 ASIA British India 2,636,875 Java 1,264,000 Formosa 391,549 Philippine islands 300,000 TOTAL IN ASIA 4,592,424 AUSTRALIA AND POLYNESIA Queensland } 150,000 New South Wales } Fiji 90,000 TOTAL IN AUSTRALIA AND POLYNESIA 240,000 AFRICA