Synopsis The present informative compendium attempts to provide general information about sugar, sugarcane crops, national and international scenario of sugarcane, its growth, development, terminology used with this crop, ripening, juice quality, staling, milling sugarcane verities, pests and diseases affective sugarcane constraints to sugarcane productivity, new equipments and process technologies developed, how to make and effective development plan for a sugar mill area, sugar organization at the national and international levels, some sugarcane farmers will be of interest equally to the researchers, development workers, elite farmers, planners and all others interested with sugarcane and sugar, per se.