PM Okays Sugarcane Growing Plan
The Prime Minister has approved a blueprint to develop the growing of sugarcane until 2010, with a vision through 2020, in a move to ensure the industry’s socio-economic efficiency and environmental sustainability.
Accordingly, the state will provide part of the investment for infrastructure and irrigation projects in sugarcane growing areas, and help with research and transfer of technological advances to raise sugarcane yields.
The state will create favorable conditions for sugar mills and companies to build their own trademarks and organize trade promotional activities.
Sugar factories will also be required to work out plans to expand sugarcane acreage, assist sugarcane growers in applying advanced farming techniques, and put in place quality management systems to ensure food hygiene.
In related news, sugar factories nationwide will produce nearly 1.26 million tons of sugar in the 2006-2007 sugarcane crop which will end next July, up from 970,000 tons in the previous crop, according to the Vietnam Sugarcane Association.
Some 21 out of 36 sugar refineries started operation on the 2006-07 crop since early November, producing nearly 88,000 tons of the product, raising total output since the beginning of the crop to 113,900 tons. (Vietnam & World Economy)
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