Tiruppur: District administration instruct farmers to register crops with sugar mill
Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu: Sugarcane farmers are instructed to register crops with the near-defunct Amaravathi Cooperative Sugar Mill.
Farmers in the Mill’s Command Area (Coimbatore, Tiruppur, and Dindigul districts) can register to supply their produce.
Due to machinery breakdowns last year, the mill crushed only 50,000 tonnes of the 75,000 tonnes procured, with 10,000 tonnes redirected to other mills.
This year, all produce from the command area will be sent to other mills.
Farmers are disappointed that the ₹160 crore modernization proposal for the mill was not advanced by the State government.
Installed in 1955, the Mill’s machinery couldn’t be repaired last year due to a lack of spare parts.
Farmers staged a demonstration demanding immediate funding for machinery renovation.
Tiruppur ranks tenth in the State for sugarcane cultivation with 3,484 hectares and a productivity rate of 117 tonnes per hectare.
M.M. Nagarajan, Secretary of the Tamil Nadu Karumbu Vivasayigal Sangam, emphasized the importance of modernizing the Mill for its 11% sugar recovery rate and future potential for ethanol production.
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