Sugar and salt are present on the table in almost any modern man, although these simple products still mined by conventional, not to say the ancients methods. More than 100 countries annually produce about 160 million tons of sugar.
Most of the sugar produced from sugar cane that grows in tropical countries. Each year the inhabitants of the earth mined 240 million tons of salt for cooking and industrial needs. This photo story on how to make sugar and salt is mined in various parts of the world.
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| Salt terraces near the town of Maras in the region of Cusco, Peru, August 29, 2012. |
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| Cut away the stem of sugar cane in a field in Saraburi province, Thailand, May 9, 2012. Thailand is the second largest sugar exporter in the world. |
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| Customers visiting the salt mine Nemokon, September 26, 2012. Mine Nemokon is the most popular tourist attraction in Colombia. |
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| Work evaporates water taken from the mangrove swamps to get table salt on the salt mine in the province of Guanacaste, Costa Rica, April 11, 2013. |
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| Salt ponds in the village Palibelo around Bima, Indonesia, November 22, 2012. |
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| Man praying in the mosque, built of salt bricks, near the second largest salt mine in the world in Khewra, Pakistan, April 20, 2013. Khewra, the oldest salt mine in Pakistan, annually visited by about 250,000 tourists. |
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| Work shows a crystal sea salt or "salt flower" at the saltworks near Nina, Croatia, August 24, 2012. Salt flakes, like the petals of flowers are formed on the surface of the sea. Collect flakes performed manually using a sieve. The price of this kind of salt is 50 euros per kilogram. |
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| Smoke coming from the chimneys of sugar factory in Plattling, Germany, October 9, 2012. |
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| An Afghan man prepares traditional sweets in a factory on the outskirts of Jalalabad, November 25, 2012. |
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| Work incinerate waste sugarcane pins ash, which is used in the production of charcoal in the factory Eco Fuel Africa in Lugazi, Uganda, 29 January 2013. |
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| A man working in the salt ponds in the province of Pangasinan, Philippines, May 6, 2013. |
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| Woman throws to use the land in Djegbadji, Benin, January 11, 2013. Illegal getters salt take topsoil outside their homes, then washed ground water to dissolve the salt wash, and finally, water is evaporated. |
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| Cambodian carries palm juice from which the sugar in Tuol, Cambodia, December 13, 2012. |
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| Local farmers cut sugar cane plantation in the province of Prey Veng, Cambodia, September 1, 2012. |
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| Work rolls wagon with salt on the salt mine in Ston, Croatia, July 31, 2012. Salt mines of Ston - the oldest mines in the Mediterranean. |
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| Work twists valve controls the flow of sugar cane juice, the sugar factory in Jaronu, Cuba, September 8, 2012. |
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| People work at the salt mine in Las Salinas, Dominican Republic, July 28, 2012. Mines in the Las Salinas known since the Spanish colonizers. The workers here are paid about $ 150 a month. |
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| Work takes place between the salt ponds in the village Palibelo, Indonesia, November 22, 2012 |
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| People work on a sugar cane plantation in Siribala, Mali, January 24, 2013. |
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| Farmer riding a donkey on a sugar plantation in the town of Nueva Herusalen, Mexico, September 26, 2012. |
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| A woman cuts sugar cane plantation sugar factory on the outskirts of Managua Montelimar, Nicaragua, December 31, 2012. Nicaragua plans to produce 1.5 million short tons of sugar per year. |
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| The man in the brown sugar makes his home on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan, Nov. 6, 2012. |
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| Pieces of the panel, unrefined cane sugar, lie in a tub at a sugar factory in Tepetitan, El Salvador, February 26, 2012. |
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| Worker carries a bag of salt in the salt terraces near the town of Maras in the region of Cusco, Peru, August 29, 2012. |
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| A crossroads in the salt mines of concern Rio Tinto Group in Dampier, Australia, August 20, 2012. |
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| Farmers clean sugarcane field in the village of Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, February 24, 2012. |
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| Working drinks water during harvesting sugar cane on a plantation in Sidoarjo, Indonesia, September 19, 2012. |
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| A worker takes a sample of the salt mine salt for analysis in Bex, Switzerland, December 4, 2012. |
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| A man passes the halite pieces produced at the bottom of Lake Katwe, Uganda, January 29, 2013. |
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| Man produces rock salt on the bottom of Lake Katwe, Uganda, January 29, 2013 |