GAIBANDHA, Dec 6, 2018 (BSS) – Sugar production in Rangpur Sugar Mills
Limited (RSML) located at Mohimaganj area under Gobindaganj upazila in the
district will start on Friday.
Office sources said sugarcane was farmed on 5,780 acres of land in the own
farm of the RSML and its eight sub zone areas in 2017-2018 season.
The RSML set a target to produce 5,600 metric tonnes of sugar by crushing
80,000 tonnes of sugarcane during the current crushing season and the rate of
sugar extraction has been estimated at 7 percent, sources said.
Senior sugarcane grower Zinnat Ali Prodhan and old-aged employee of the
mill freedom fighter Golam Rahman are likely to inaugurate the sugarcane
crushing for the 2018-2019 crushing season.
Talking to the BSS managing director of the RSML Anwar Hossain Akand said
all preparations had been completed to start the sugar production of the mill
on Friday.
He also sought whole hearted cooperation of the officials and the employees
including the growers to work dedicatedly and sincerely to attain the target
of the sugar production fixed by the mills authority.