GUR is the natural mixture of sugar and molasses. If pure clarified sugarcane juice is boiled, what is left as solid is GUR which is called jaggery also.

Now everybody knows that sugar is harmful for health. Particularly it creates diabetes which is dangerous disease. Some scientists have described sugar as a white poison. So sugar is a evil. As against this, GUR is innocent and nutritious food and it contains many natural minerals. So this is natural substance. So GUR should be used in our food instead of sugar. GUR is blessing for human health. In India, GUR is used since centuries.

  Sugar making process is very much complicated and very very costly. Producing of sugar is heavily centralized in a giant sugar plant with highly complicated and highly costly machinery running into millions of dollars. So naturally there is a huge exploitation of vested interests in sugar industry. As against this, GUR making process is very simple and very cheap. It can be done on the sugarcane farm itself at very small scale. No complicated machinery required. Any layman can master the art of GUR making process easily. Capital requirement in GUR making is only 5% or less than the capital requirement for sugar plant of the same capacity. So GUR making plant is extremely cheap.

So we can conclude from the above that GUR is better for health and easier and cheaper to make it. So it is within the reach of common sugarcane farmers. As against this, sugar is harmful for health and is complicated and costly to make it and it is out of reach of common sugarcane farmers.

 So wherever sugarcane is produced, tiny farm level GUR plants should be established and use of GUR in our food should be encouraged and use of sugar should be discouraged. SO LOVE GUR AND HATE SUGAR.

  It is very simple to manufacture jaggery. First the sugarcane is crushed into sugarcane crusher to get sugarcane juice. Then sugarcane juice is boiled in a boiling pan by firing under the boiling pan. For heat economy, efficient furnace is constructed in the ground. and 4 boiling pans are arranged in line and flue gases pass under all the four boiling pans one after another and then escape through chimney.