Sugar Sector: Over 200 businesses identified

The sugar industry has a potential as it generates more than 200 businesses and five other products including sugar, bagasse and molasses. More importantly, according to specialists, sugar offers an opportunity, through cogeneration and biofuels to create alternative energy development.

The advantages of its use, production, processing of waste and its technologies are contained in the book "Sugar cane in sub-Saharan Africa: Processes and crafts."

It provides a comprehensive state of knowledge on the sugar cane its businesses including generation of energy. This important work has gained contributions from specialists, including five professors and academics. On top of the list are César Kapseu, Ali Ahmed, Paul Mingo Ghogomu, Carl Mbofung and Martial Ndong Essengue.

The dedication of this book prefaced by the President and CEO of the Cameroon sugar company, Louis Yinda and afterword by Professor Paul Henri Amvam Zollo, rector of the University of Ngaoundere was held on Wednesday in Yaounde.

The document covers all the fundamental aspects of the unit, technology operations and trades. Much space is devoted to processing engineering.

Professionals, especially engineering and design agencies, will find this book to be based on concrete examples and data to better understand these technologies and guide their decisions. This book of over 250 pages divided into four parts will also be an important source of information for students in a rapidly changing field.

According to the signatories of this document, the work was conducted in partnership with the University of Ngaoundere through the research of graduation and masters students.

The representative of Ministry of Higher Education, Professor Wilfried Gabsa, beyond the same document production, said collaboration between academic colleagues is a clear sign of the vitality of the Cameroonian intelligentsia and vitality of the Cameroonian university.

He therefore, welcomed the authors who have published the multiple possibilities and different ways of using possible services in the operation and marketing of the cane.

For Professor Kapseu, the book's aim is to enhance the expertise of professionals in the sugar industry, informing young people about the sugar technology, raising awareness of the opportunities of the sugar industry in terms of jobs and trades and enhance the research potential of universities to the industries.