Sugarcane is the main source of sugar in India. Sugar juice is used for making white sugar, brown sugar (Khandsari) and Jaggery (Gur). Sugarcane is one of the main crops of earning foreign exchange. The main by products of the sugarcane industry are bagasses and molasses. Bagasse is mainly used as a fuel. It is also used for the production of compressed fiberboard, paper, plastic and furfural. Molasses is used in distilleries for manufacture of ethyl alcohol, butyl alcohol, citric acid etc. Rum is the best potable spirit made from molasses. Molasses is also used as an additive to feeds for livestock. Green tops of sugarcane are a good source of fodder for cattle. Press mud is used as manure in alkaline and saline soils. A sugar industry in India is next in importance only to the textile industries and provides gainful employment to a large number of people.