The major cane processing stages in converting sugarcane to its essential derivatives was shown in Fig 1. It was clearly indicated that processing of sugarcane starts with the extraction of juice from sugarcane stalk. Several methods of juice extraction were in used. These methods included boiling the cane to extract the juice, use of wooden presses and application of more sophisticated mills driven mechanically or by bullocks (Okogie, 1980). The high power requirements during processing of sugarcane constitute the major constrain in the development of small scale sugar processing plants. This also explains why natural sugar juice is not generally available. The average power distributions for a medium size sugar factory powered by electricity or steam turbine at crushing rate of 170 tons/hour is presented in Table 1. The recent upsurge of interest in generation of biofuels from plant material has necessitated current waves of interest in the partial mechanization of cane juice extraction and coupled with the production of bio ethanol for domestic and industrial application (Galitsky et al., 2007). The development of a small scale sugarcane juice extractor was therefore to meet the needs of the small scale farmers who cannot avoid high capacity and complex cane crushers. The main objectives of this study were to design and construct a simple mechanical device for extraction of sugarcane juice. The functional performance and economics of operation of the machine were evaluated.