Indian sugar mills association

Hooda urges cane-growing farme

Date:	25 Jun 2011

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Chandigarh: Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has asked the Haryana federation of cooperative sugar mills to popularise the Single Bud Vertical Plantation (SVP) technique among the cane-growing farmers as it gives double yield and consumes 75% less water. He was presiding over a meeting to review working of the cooperative sugar mills in the state. The CM was informed that sugarcane production per unit area can be increased by using new sugarcane sowing technique like SVP and space transplanting. The SVP technique is revolutionary as its seed and irrigation requirements were only 25% of the conventional technique, but the normal yield is almost double that is minimum 550 quintal per acre as against the current normal yield of 275 per quintals. Annual return maximises with one full-fledged additional crop through inter-cropping in the three feet wide empty plane bed between the two rows. The technique willdouble the profit of the farmers and would also overcome the problem of insufficient availability of sugarcane because returns through this technique would be much more than any other crop combination, the officers informed through the power presentation. The government has motivated the farmers to use the SVP technique and it has been used by different progressive farmers in their 500 acre land. It was informed that out of total six lakh farming families in the state, 70,000 farmers were sugarcane growers. The sugar federation is providing employment to 7,500 workers and engineers directly and 25,000 people were getting indirect employment in the field of cane harvesting, loading, unloading, labour and transportation activities. Hooda asked the cooperative sugar mills to increase the crushing capacity and sugar production to 3.75 crore quintals sugarcane and 36 lakh quintal sugar. At present, the Haryana cooperative sugar mills have a crushing...capacity of 2.37 crore quintals daily and crush upto four crore quintal cane per season. The ten cooperative sugar mills crushed 2.28 crore quintal sugarcane this year and 19.24 lakh quintal sugar was produced. The total turnover of the ten co-operative sugar mills was R 760.3 crore. The sugarcane growing farmers were provided the best cane price in the country, which was R 220, R215 and R 210 per quintal for early, mid and late varieties, respectively....

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