Joypurhat Sugar Mill may achieve target of sugar production
Friday, 28 December 2007
JOYPURHAT, Dec 27 (UNB): Joypurhat Sugar Mill may achieve the target of sugar production this season due to sufficient supply of sugarcane.
The mill, which started sugarcane crushing on November 23, had set a target to produce 12,950 tonnes of sugar crushing 0.17 million tonnes of sugarcane during the current 2007-08 crushing season. The recovery rate has been fixed at 7.40 per cent.
Some 2,984 tonnes of sugar was produced in the mill from 46,770 tonnes of sugarcane in 31 working days until December 24.
Sugarcane was cultivated on 16,000 acres of land under the Joypurhat Sugar Mill zone area and its production was satisfactory. Though heavy rainfall damaged sugarcane field on 100 acres in the district it could not damage the fields cultivated in mill zone area.
The contract growers of the mill are expecting to produce 0.3 million tonnes of sugarcane. In this situation, the mill authority said they wouldn't have to face any sugarcane crisis for sugar production.
But the authority could not say anything about the profit as the mill incurred a huge loss even after producing 3,000 tonnes of sugar more than the target last season as the government reduced the price of sugar to Tk 25.00 per kilogram.
The mill, which started sugarcane crushing on November 23, had set a target to produce 12,950 tonnes of sugar crushing 0.17 million tonnes of sugarcane during the current 2007-08 crushing season. The recovery rate has been fixed at 7.40 per cent.
Some 2,984 tonnes of sugar was produced in the mill from 46,770 tonnes of sugarcane in 31 working days until December 24.
Sugarcane was cultivated on 16,000 acres of land under the Joypurhat Sugar Mill zone area and its production was satisfactory. Though heavy rainfall damaged sugarcane field on 100 acres in the district it could not damage the fields cultivated in mill zone area.
The contract growers of the mill are expecting to produce 0.3 million tonnes of sugarcane. In this situation, the mill authority said they wouldn't have to face any sugarcane crisis for sugar production.
But the authority could not say anything about the profit as the mill incurred a huge loss even after producing 3,000 tonnes of sugar more than the target last season as the government reduced the price of sugar to Tk 25.00 per kilogram.