Sugarcane juice kilns have been used in this area for centuries to make jaggery.  The British authorities made some changes in it and made it world famous by naming it 'Sindewahi furnace'.  Not one or two but hundreds of dissertations have been published in the periodicals of that time.  The low cost and low fuel jaggery kiln was initially compared to the Poona Furnace in the Pune area.  Due to the relatively high benefits of Sindewahi Bhatti, it used to be demonstrated at all farmers' conventions across India.  The comparative study of each new furnace used to be done with Sindewahi furnace.  Sindewahi kilns were built for farmers in Madras, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.  However, later due to mechanization, such kilns became obsolete.