Sugar is a highly 'politicized' commodity in India and covered under the Essential Commodity Act, 1955. In Indian Sugar industry, the government regulates raw material cost and announces a statuary minimum price (SMP) for the purchase of sugarcane by the sugar firms before the start of the sugar year.\r\nSugar has a number of non-food uses. One of these is in the pharmaceutical industry. There is a significant use of sugar in the more traditional areas, e.g. tablets, syrups and pallets. Hence sugar can be good raw material for the synthesis of novel ecofriendly polymers. This sugar based polymers are easily synthesized by conventional method and by microwave synthesis technique and compared with each other by its method of analysis, characterization and by its application in replacement of petroleum products which are abundantly used in powder and liquid detergent.
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