Joypurhat Sugar Mills, the largest government owned sugar mill factory in the country, has trashed 50,700 metric tonnes of sugarcane and produced a total of 2, 451 metric tonnes of sugar in the last 45 days of the current threshing season. The percentage of sugar accumulation is 5.16 percent.
The 2020-2021 threshing season of Joypurhat Sugar Mills was inaugurated on December 18.
The target for the production of sugar is 10,692 metric tonnes of sugar with a target of crashing 1,62,000 metric tonnes of sugarcane in the current season.
According to the government’s decision to reduce the ongoing losses sugar due to lack of sugarcane in this session 162,000 metric tonnes of sugarcane will be threshed in three sugar mills in the northern region which is said to be the largest sugar industry in the country.
According to the decision, 60,000 metric tonnes of sugarcane in Joypurhat Sugar Mills area, 50,000 metric tonnes of Shampur Sugar Mills and 52,000 metric tonnes of Mahimagonj Sugar Mills will be threshed in Joypurhat Sugar Mills.
The target has been set to produce 10,692 metric tons of sugar by threshing 1,62,000 metric tons of sugarcane collected from three sugar mills for the current 2020-21 sugarcane threshing season.
The target for sugar production this year has been set at 6.60 percent. According to the mill authorities, the current threshing session will continue for three months and 20 days in Joypurhat Sugar Mills.
The authorities of Joypurhat Sugar Mills expected to produce 16 metric tonnes of sugarcane per day.
Among them, 500 metric tonnes of Joypurhat area, six hundred metric tons of Shampur sugar mills and five hundred metric tons of Mahimagonj area will be thrashed.
As of January 31, a total of 6,387 metric tonnes of sugarcane from Shampur Sugar Mills and 8,783 metric tons of sugarcane Jourpurhat Sugar Mills have been supplied.
Syed Mo Abu Bakr, managing director (MD) of Joypurhat Sugar Mills, said there have been no major problems or mechanical errors since the beginning of this season.
“If everything is right, I hope sugar production will exceed the production target,” he said.
