Alum is a salt that in chemistry is a combination of an alkali metal, such as sodium, potassium, or ammonium and a trivalent metal, such as aluminum, iron, or chromium.
USDA allocates a share of the anticipated U.S. sugar market to sugar producers annually. This allotment basically determines the amount of sugar an individual company is allowed to sell that year. However, these allotments can be, and often are, adjusted based on harvest conditions.
Food Industry. Sugar production. Morocco, which used to import its total needs of sugar after independence, produces presently more than 438,000 tons, which is half of the national consumption which reached 889,000 tons in 1996.