Coimbatore: Sugarcane crushing at the Dharmapuri District Cooperative Sugar Mill Limited in Palacodde began on Monday.
For this fiscal year, around 3,422-acre cane area has been registered with the sugar mill for crushing. The mill has set a target of crushing 1.02 million tonnes of sugarcane to produce 1.03 lakh quintals of sugar.
The sugar mill has also set a target of producing 9.31 MW of power. The mill will use 3.02 MW for its routine operations and the remaining 6.24 MW of power will be sold to Tangedco for distribution, said the sugar mill officials.
The sugar mill has begun operations after a break of two years. The mill was not operating in 2019-20 and 2020-21 crushing seasons due to severe drought in the region, said the officials.
As many as 48 lorries, 50 tractors, 14 tippers, and 26 bullock carts have been deployed to harvest the cane grown in the region and transport it to the mill for crushing. The mill administration has appealed to the farmers to send their cane to the mill in time.
