“…However, Maharashtra's productivity (79.50 tonnes/ha) is poor and the state ranked sixth in productivity in the country during 2018-19 (sugarcane.icar.gov.in) Chougule et al, 2021) [5] . 300 million tonnes of sugarcane are produced in India each year, of which 53 per cent has been converted in granulated sugar, 36 per cent in jaggery and khandsari, 3 per cent into cane juice for chewing, and 8 per cent into seed cane (Hirpara et al, 2020; I. Rajendran, 2020; Dilip Pawar et al, 2017) [9,26,22] . Jaggery has different regional names such as Gur (Jaggery) in India, Desi in Pakistan, Panela in Mexico and South America, Jaggery in Burma and other African nations, Hakuru in Sri Lanka, and Naam Taanoi in Thailand are all used to refer to jaggery (A. K. Thakur, 1999 [33,16,24,36,10] .…”