Sugar Cane destroying in Tribal Farming Area's

Pakistan Sugar Mills Association (PSMA) has already announced lighting up the boilers of their units for sugar production from November 15. However, proper crushing season would start at the end of November.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has a total of 7 sugar mills with four units situated only in D.I. Khan, one each in Bannu, Peshawar and Mardan divisions of the province. During last crushing season the two sugar mills failed to complete crushing seasons due to the unavailability of sugarcane.

The Cane Commissioner agreed with the contentions that the cost of production of sugarcane had increased by many fold and the price offered by the millers did not suit the growers.

He said that devastation floods had affected standing sugarcane crop on 0.194 million acres of the total cultivated crop on 3.5 million acres. The estimated target of sugarcane production is 54.834 metric ton in the province.