Aska Cooperative Sugar Industries Limited (ACSIL) has produced around 66,700 quintal sugar during the current crushing season, around 28,605 quintals more than the previous year.
In the previous year Orissa’s Aska-based sugar industry in cooperative sector produced 37,895 quintals of sugar.
Similarly the factory also crushed 38,317 metric tones of sugarcane this year than the previous year. The oldest sugar industry in the state crushed 81,923 metric tones of sugarcane this year in 53 days as against the previous years 43,606 metric tones in 34 days.
The factory ran more days this year as the farmers supplied more sugarcane than the previous year, said a senior officer of the factory.
The factory started to crush the sugarcane from December 23, 2010 and ended on February 18.
The factory authorities aimed to crush around 1.50 lakh metric tones of sugarcane in the next crushing season to be started in the month of December.
“We have taken several steps to increase the acreages of the sugarcane in Ganjam district to achieve the target,” sugarcane manager of ACSIL P C Padhy said.
The factory authorities want to increase the sugarcane acreage in the district to 7500 acres from 3603 acres.
