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The cane-crushing play for 2025-26 began astatine the public-sector Chengalrayan co-operative sweetener mill astatine Periyasevalai connected Wednesday.
Sugarcane raised connected astir 10,347 acres by astir 4,000 farmers has been registered for proviso to the mill for the existent season. About 3.01 lakh tonnes of sugarcane were expected to beryllium crushed astatine the mill during the season.
The crushing play was formally inaugurated by Collector Sheik Abdul Rahman.
According to a property release, farmers would beryllium paid ₹4,000 per tonne of cane. In bid to promote members of the society, who had registered and crushed cane successful the past crushing play of 2024-25, a enactment inducement of ₹349 a tonne was issued. A full of ₹7.95 crore was straight credited to the accounts of members of the sugarcane cooperative society.
