Shahabad, Yamunanagar sugar mills begin crushing ops

Tribune News Service

Kurukshetra/Y’nagar, Nov 16

Sugar mills in Shahabad and Yamunanagar began the crushing operations today.

Cooperation Minister Banwari Lal, who joined the ceremony through video-conferencing for the Shahabad mill, said the state government had been paying special attention to strengthen the financial condition of sugar mills in the state.

The crushing capacity of Shahabad Cooperative Sugar Mills Limited is 5,000 tonnes of sugarcane per day. Recently, an ethanol plant of 60 kilolitres per day (KLPD) was inaugurated in the sugar mill.

Kurukshetra DC Mukul Kumar said, “The sugar mill had last year crushed 76.81 lakh quintals of sugarcane and produced 8.34 lakh quintals of sugar. This season, the target is to crush 80 lakh quintals and produce 8.8 lakh quintals of sugar.”

Meanwhile, Saraswati Sugar Mills in Yamunanagar started the crushing operation a week earlier as compared with the last year. Its Chief Operating Officer, SK Sachdeva, inaugurated the operations.

Farmers of 672 villages associated with the mill are happy with the early functioning of the mill.

DP Singh, senior vice-president of the mill, said: “The mill had crushed 162 lakh quintals of sugarcane last year. This time, the target is to crush 175 lakh quintals.”