Three sugar co-ops on anvil in Telangana

The Indian Express has carried a report on the Telangana state govt planning to get three sugar factories at Medak, Metpalli and Bodhan managed by farmers on cooperative lines. The govt will take all necessary steps to reorganize the factories including settling their financial liabilities if any.

According to the state agriculture minister Pocharam Srinivasa Reddy said Chief Minister K.Chandrasekhar Rao has given the plan the thumbs up.

The report says the Telangana farmers harvest just 30 tonnes of sugarcane per hectare whereas farmers in Maharashtra produce more than 100 tonnes. Sugar cooperative factories in Maharashtra crush annually 10 lakh tonnes as opposed to a mere 1 lakh in Telangana.

According to the report, Mr. Pocharam had recently taken a couple of hundreds of farmers from Telangana to Maharashtra to get them familiar with how sugar cooperative factories function there.

The state govt has also decided to revive the cooperative srugar factory in Nizamabad along with the three sugar factories.