Haryana govt approves cane plan

With a view to ensuring sufficient sugarcane of good quality for crushing, Haryana government has approved an intensive cane development plan of all ten cooperative sugar mills for the year 2015-16.
Disclosing this here today, a spokesman of Haryana State Federation of Cooperative Sugar mills said that the target for cane area has been set for 83,800 hectares with 526 lakh quintals of estimated cane production.
He said that according to an estimate, the availability of cane for crushing would be 355 lakh quintals.
The target for sugar recovery has been set at 9.50 per cent, he said.
At present, 10 cooperative sugar mills are in operation under the control of Sugar Federation, he said, adding that another cooperative sugar mill was being operated by HAFED at Assandh.

He said that for the next crop season, 2015-16, an intensive cane development plan for Rs 42.16 crore has been prepared, out of which Rs 5.70 crore would be borne by the sugar mills as subsidy and remaining Rs 36.46 crore would be made available to farmers as interest-free loan for arranging various inputs like seeds, fertilisers and agro- chemicals.

The production of sugar was 29.81 lakh quintals during 2014-15 as compared to 28.79 lakh quintals during 2013-14.
The sugar mills had 91.52 per cent capacity utilisation as compared to 90.46 per cent in 2013-14, he said.
The cooperative sugar mills exported 8.07 crore units of power during 2014-15 as compared to 7.84 crore units in 2013-14.

Besides, power of value Rs 32.70 crore was exported by the sugar mills during 2014-15 as compared to Rs 31.75 crore during the previous year, he said.
The Panipat Distillery has started production of Ethanol and supplied about 14.40 lakh litres Ethanol, valued at Rs 7.24 crore to Indian Oil Corporation Limited and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited, he said.