CURATED BY – GAURAV SINGHAL | CITYCHIEFNEWS

Saharanpur. This time the sugarcane crushing season of sugar mills was not very good. Eight sugar mills crushed sugarcane in the district. Seven sugar mills have been closed and the Triveni unit of Deoband will complete its crushing season in a day or two.
Om Prakash Singh, Deputy Cane Commissioner of the Sugarcane Department, said that this time one million quintals less sugar has been produced in the district and 99.91 lakh quintals less sugarcane has been crushed. That means there has been a huge decline in both sugarcane crushing and sugar production. In the last season, less sugar mills had crushed, yet 539.76 lakh quintals of sugarcane was crushed, whereas this time the area under sugarcane was 250 hectares more. Omprakash Singh said that sugarcane of 0238 species is sown up to 90 percent in Saharanpur district. This time due to excessive rains and floods, seven thousand hectares of sugarcane area was affected and the sugarcane yield fell. He said that this variety of sugarcane was also more prone to diseases. The yield of sugarcane crop has declined due to many diseases ranging from red rot. The sugarcane department is appealing to the farmers to adopt new and disease free varieties. So that the production of sugarcane and production of sugar in the district can increase.