Sugarcane crushing begins
Sugarcane crushing at Thakurgaon and Panchagarh Sugar Mills began on Friday afternoon. Water Resources Minister Ramesh Chandra Sen inaugurated the crushing of sugarcane at the mills. Managing Director (MD) of Thakurgoan Sugar Mills Sibendranath Sarkar said the production target was fixed at 6,300 tonnes of sugar by crushing 90 thousand MT sugarcanes this fiscal (2011-12) while the recovery rate from the canes is seven percent. In Panchagarh Sugar Mills, the production target was fixed at 5,250 MT of sugar by crushing 70,000 MT sugarcanes while the recovery rate from the canes is 7:50 percent.
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