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Sugar Industry Introduction

Follow a bag of Australian sugar from farm to customer. Read the information, then solve the questions. Use clues from the passage and supply-chain visual.

Read: From cane to customer

Sugarcane is a tall grass grown in warm parts of Australia, especially Queensland. Farmers grow and harvest the cane, then send it to a nearby mill. At the mill, machines crush the cane to collect its sweet juice. The juice is cleaned and processed into sugar. Workers pack the sugar, and trucks or ships carry it to shops or to customers in other countries. This journey is called a supply chain. Each step uses people, equipment and transport, so it creates jobs and costs money. Selling sugar can bring money to Australian businesses. Customers choose how much sugar to buy, and businesses decide what products to make. Sugarcane growing also needs land and water, so communities consider how to care for these resources.

Sugarcane farm

→ Sugar mill

→ Packing and transport

→ Shop or overseas customer

Investigate the industry

Answer using the passage and your own reasoning.

1.Where is sugarcane grown in Australia, and what kind of plant is it?
2.What happens at the sugar mill?
3.Choose the best meaning of supply chain.
  • The steps a product takes from its source to the customer
  • A list of sugar recipes
  • A way to measure the height of sugarcane
4.Put these stages in order by writing 1, 2, 3 and 4: packing and transport; sugarcane farm; shop or overseas customer; sugar mill.
5.True or false: Selling Australian sugar to customers in other countries is an example of exporting.
TrueFalse
6.Name two kinds of workers or jobs that help sugar travel from farm to customer.
7.A mill needs a truck driver to deliver packed sugar. How does the driver help the supply chain?
8.Give one way the sugar industry can benefit Australian communities and one resource people need to care for.
9.Imagine a shop has more customers asking for sugar. What might the shop decide to do?
10.A community wants sugarcane farms to use water carefully. Suggest one action farmers could take and explain why.

3 printable pages

  • Sugar Industry Introduction, page 1 of 3: Read: From cane to customer, Investigate the industry

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  • Sugar Industry Introduction, page 2 of 3: 3. Choose the best meaning of supply chain.

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  • Sugar Industry Introduction, page 3 of 3: 9. Imagine a shop has more customers asking for sugar. What might the shop decide

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