Cooperative Sugar Mills in Haryana have made an average recovery of 10 per cent sugar till Thursday during the current crushing season, as compared to 9.30 per cent recorded during last crushing season.
“Also, it is after the year 2003-04 that these mills have now achieved this record recovery of sugar,” an official release quoting Haryana’s Minister of State for Cooperation Bikram Singh Yadav said here.
Mr Yadav said that the cooperative sugar mills have even surpassed the average sugar recovery of co-operative sugar mills in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh which is 9.85 per cent and 9.39 per cent, respectively.
He said that the average sugar recovery of Cooperative Sugar Mills of Shahabad, Karnal, Panipat and Kaithal is 10.96 per cent, 10.85 per cent, 10.50 per cent and 10.10 per cent, respectively.
Besides this, the average sugar recovery of Cooperative Sugar Mill, Sonipat is 9.89 per cent, and that of Jind is 9.57 per cent, of Sugar Mill Gohana 9.56 per cent and Cooperative Sugar Mill, Palwal has recorded sugar recovery of 9.55 per cent.
He said that in the current crushing season, the State has so far produced over 26.62 lakh quintals of sugar by crushing 270.20 lakh quintals of sugarcane.
The Minister said that Cooperative Sugar Mill, Shahabad has so far crushed a maximum of 50.60 lakh quintals of sugarcane and produced over 5.44 lakh quintals sugar, followed by Cooperative Sugar Mill, Rohtak which has crushed 35.53 lakh quintals of sugarcane and has produced over 3.19 lakh quintals sugar.
