Mobile message could speed up sugarcane collection
Saturday, 9 October 2010
FE Report
State-run sugar mills will start issuing 'purji' -- a permit of selling sugarcane -- through mobile phone's SMS which is issued for growers this month, the head of Sugar Corporation said.
Ranjit Kumar Biswas, chairman of Bangladesh Sugar and Food Industries Corporation (BSFIC), said: "We will start issuing purji a day or two before North Bengal Sugar Mills Ltd starts crushing. The crushing season will continue till February 2011."
The traditional purji issuance takes three to four days to reach sugarcane growers but now it will be a matter of 10 seconds. It will help get fresh sugarcane and the recovery rate will be higher.
He said, "Around 6.1 million sugarcane farmers will get this facility. This time we have collected mobile phone numbers of farmers."
The price of sugarcane per mound has been fixed at Tk 80, which was Tk 66 during the last year's harvesting time.
Last year, the corporation experimentally introduced the 'purji' through SMS system in Faridpur Sugar Mills Ltd and Mobarakgonj Sugar Mills Ltd.
The new system enhanced the recovery rate at 8.06 per cent in Faridpur Sugar Mills Ltd.
State-run sugar mills will start issuing 'purji' -- a permit of selling sugarcane -- through mobile phone's SMS which is issued for growers this month, the head of Sugar Corporation said.
Ranjit Kumar Biswas, chairman of Bangladesh Sugar and Food Industries Corporation (BSFIC), said: "We will start issuing purji a day or two before North Bengal Sugar Mills Ltd starts crushing. The crushing season will continue till February 2011."
The traditional purji issuance takes three to four days to reach sugarcane growers but now it will be a matter of 10 seconds. It will help get fresh sugarcane and the recovery rate will be higher.
He said, "Around 6.1 million sugarcane farmers will get this facility. This time we have collected mobile phone numbers of farmers."
The price of sugarcane per mound has been fixed at Tk 80, which was Tk 66 during the last year's harvesting time.
Last year, the corporation experimentally introduced the 'purji' through SMS system in Faridpur Sugar Mills Ltd and Mobarakgonj Sugar Mills Ltd.
The new system enhanced the recovery rate at 8.06 per cent in Faridpur Sugar Mills Ltd.