Haryana Government is expecting that all cooperative sugar mills would crush about 331 lakh quintals sugarcane during the crushing season 2015-16.
Under this, Cooperative Sugar Mills Jind and Meham have set a target of crushing 56.96 lakh quintals sugarcane thus producing 5.21 lakh quintals sugar.
Besides, these sugar mills have also set a target of achieving average sugar recovery of 9.25 per cent, said Haryana Minister of State for Cooperation, Bikram Singh Yadav while launching the crushing season of Cooperative Sugar Mills Jind and Meham on Thursday.
The Minister said that the State Government is giving maximum price to sugarcane growers in the state and for the crushing season 2015-16, the prices has been fixed as `310 per quintal for early variety of sugarcane, `305 per quintal for mid variety and `300 per quintal for late variety.
Yadav said that both the sugar mills have spent `347.62 lakh on various items under Sugarcane Development Scheme during the year 2015-16 which included `285.23 lakh spent by Jind Sugar mill and `62.39 lakh spent by Meham Sugar mill.
He said that both the sugar mills have decided to spent `304.55 lakh for sugarcane development during the crushing season 2016-17. Under this, the Cooperative Sugar mill Jind has a plan to spent `200.20 lakh and Cooperative Sugar mill Meham has a plan to spent `104.55 lakh.
Kisan Vishram Greh (Farmer Rest House) has been set up in cooperative sugar mills of the state for farmers who bring sugarcane to the mills. Apart from this, round the clock canteen facility has been provided to farmers in sugarcane yard, he added.