Lawu Brown Sugar – To Be the First Brand in China's Brown Sugar Industry
The Lawu Brown Sugar has a deep rooted connection to the Hainan intangible cultural heritage. Sugarcane has been one of the most popular type of crops in the Hainan Island since ancient times. The farmers in Zuntan, a place near Haikou, make white and brown sugar using their traditional indigenous crafts thereby making sugar the largest native agricultural products. As per the "Annals of Guangdong" and the "Annals of Zhende Qiongtai", Zuntan has 600 years of sugar making history. Traditional sugar making process includes extracting the juice out of the raw material, boiling, cooking and solidifying the process. The bars are then powdered to give them a granule form. The best thing is that these farmers have been recycling the waste or bi-products of sugar ever since they have started making sugar.