Set up biofuel briquetting plants at all Hry cooperative sugar mills, CM tells officials

Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini directed officials to set up biofuel briquetting plants at all cooperative sugar mills of the state so that the financial condition of the mills can be improved.

Saini gave the directions while presiding over a review meeting of the Naraingarh Sugar Mill here on Tuesday.

The Chief Minister said that the work of setting up a biofuel briquetting plant had been started in the Kaithal Cooperative Sugar Mill as a pilot project, in which bagasse briquettes are being made and sold to thermal power plants and other consumers of Haryana. This has also improved the financial condition of the sugar mill considerably.

He directed the officials to set up such plants in other cooperative sugar mills of the state on the same lines. He directed that every possible effort should be made to bring the cooperative sugar mills out of losses. Meanwhile, Saini expressed happiness over the steps being taken by the government in the interest of cooperative sugar mills and farmers in the state and the continuous improvement in the efficiency of cooperative sugar mills.

The Chief Minister was informed in the meeting that in the current crushing season 2024-25, till January 13, all the cooperative sugar mills associated with Sugarfed have crushed a total of 113.56 lakh quintals of sugarcane and produced 9.18 lakh quintals of sugar with an average sugar recovery of 8.70 per cent.

In the last crushing season 2023-24, Rohtak, Sonipat, Jind, Palwal, Meham, Kaithal and Gohana cooperative sugar mills saved about 7.14 lakh quintals of bagasse and earned additional revenue of Rs 1,630.31 lakh. During the meeting, Sugarfed Chairman Dharambir Singh Dagar gave suggestions to improve the financial condition of the sugar mills.