Amrutnagar, Maharashtra: Sahkarmaharshi Bhausaheb Thorat sugar mill has decided to implement a sugarcane development scheme for the farmers associated with the mill from 1 June 2023, said the chairman of the mill Prataprao Ohol, reports Agrowan.
He said that the decision in this regard has been taken by the director body of the sugar mill.
Under this scheme, the mill will provide new cane varieties CO 86032 and COM 0265, KOSI. 671, COVSI 08005, CO. 9057, M.S. 10001 and others to the cane farmers as they are high-yielding varieties.
The scheme aims to increase the area under cane cultivation in the region and produce cane that would be sufficient to meet the crushing capacity of the sugar mill, he said.
The sugar mill will provide cane seeds to the farmers along with fertilizers and pesticides at affordable rates under this scheme, he said.
