Tirupattur mill starts crushing cane, thanks to officials rethink

Though earlier the sugar department had ordered diversion of cane from the Tirupattur and Ambur units to the Vellore unit, (Vellore sugar mill plans to crush 2.20 lakh tonnnes this season) rethinking due to demands by local farmers resulted in officials ordering crushing to start this year.

Mill chairman AR Rajendran told DT Next that “the mill plans to crush a total of 63,000 tonnes cane, including 30,000 tonnes from its registered cane area, while the government have ordered diversion of 20,000 tonnes from the Kallakurichi sugar mill (unit II), 10,000 tonnes from the Ambur sugar mill and another 3,000 tonnes from the closed private sugar mill at Polur in Tiruvannamalai district.”

Stating that officials did not expect any diversion of cane from its registered area for jaggery manufacturing due to the prevailing low prices in the jaggery market. Rajendran further said that mill officials were planning to convince farmers growing 5,000 tonnes in the mill area to supply cane though they did not register with the mill fearing that it would not crush this year.