About 61,061 quintals of sugar has been released for the month of January, which will be distributed to the ration card holders under the Public Distribution System (PDS). In an order, the Food,Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection Department said that for Bilaspur 4,958 quintal sugar, Janjgir-Champa district 4,719 quintal, Raigarh district 3,826 quintal, Raipur district 3,727 quintal , Baloda-Bazaar-Batapara district 3,503 quintal sugar, Rajnandgaon district 3,457 quintal, Durg district 3421 quintal, Mahasamund district 2,957 quintal, Surguja district 2,508 quintal, Korba district 2,465 quintal, Kabirdham district 2,246 quintal, Bastar district 2,167 quintal, Bemetara district 2,018 quintal,Mungeli 1,997 quintal, Jashpur district 1,969 quintal, Surajpur district 1,945 quintal, North Bastar (Kanker) district one thousand 694 quintal,Gariaband 1,674 quintal, Dhamtari 1,665 quintal, Balrampur-Ramanujganj district 1,656 quintal, Balod district 1,573 quintal, Koriya district 1,358 quintal,Kondagaon district 1,267 quintal, South Bastar (Dantewada) district 719 quintal, Sukma district 667 quintal, Bijapur district 609 quintal and Narayanpur district 296 quintal sugar was released.
Chhattisgarh is fast emerging as one of the key sugar manufacturing States in the Co-operatives sector. Notably, three Co-operative sugar factories of Chhattisgarh have produced 68,000 metric tonnes of sugar in the financial year 2013-14, officials stated. These sugar factories are based in village Ramhepur of Kabeerdham (Kawardha) district, village Krerta of Surajpur district and village Karkabhaat of Balod district. In these factories, nearly 7.70 lakh metric tonnes of sugarcane were procured from more than 10,000 farmers last year.
During sugarcane crushing season 2013-14, over 7.70 lakh metric tonnes of sugarcane were crushed, against the target of 8 .70 lakh metric tonnes. Officials of Co-operatives Department informed that crushing of total 4.43 lakh metric tonnes of sugarcane was done in Bhoramdev Cooperative Sugar Factory in Ramhepur village of Kabeerdham district, against the given target of 4.50 lakh metric tonnes.
In Ma Mahamaya Co-operative Sugar Factory of village Krerta Surajpur district, 2.23 lakh metric tonnes of sugar was crushed against the given target of 2.50 lakh metric tonnes. The factory produced 21,512 metric tonness of sugar. The officials further informed that in Danteshwari Maiya Co-operative Sugar Factory of village Karkabhaat Balod district, nearly 1.3 lakh metric tonnes of sugarcane was crushed, against the given target of 1.50 lakh metric tonnes and total 8,133 metric tonnes of sugar was produced.