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District Collector Durgamoorthi and Members of Parliament inaugurated the sugarcane crushing play by dropping a clump of sugarcane onto the conveyor loop astatine the Mohanur Cooperative Sugar Mill successful the territory connected Saturday (November 15, 2025).
The Collector, on with Rajya Sabha subordinate KRN. Rajeshkumar, Namakkal MP V.S. Matheswaran, and MLA P. Ramalingam, inaugurated the sugarcane crushing for the twelvemonth 2025-26 astatine the sweetener mill.
Speaking to the reporters, Rajya Sabha subordinate Rajeshkumar said that for the existent crushing season, 80,000 metric tonnes of sugarcane from 2,210 acres has been registered and an mean output of 36.20 metric tonnes per acre has been calculated from the supra registered area. According to the Sugar (Control) Act, it is planned to registry the unregistered sugarcane successful the areas wrong the jurisdiction of the mill done nonstop registration and a full of 90,000 metric tonnes of sugarcane volition beryllium crushed successful the existent crushing season.
Mr. Rajeshkumar added that successful the 2024-25 sugarcane planting season, a subsidy of ₹23.60 lakh was released to mill members done the Tamil Nadu Government’s subsidy schemes to enactment the harvest of high-yield sugarcane varieties specified arsenic 5 Co.86032, Co.11015, Co.C.13339, Co.V.09356, and Co.18009.
Stating that 90% of ethanol accumulation works improvement works has been completed successful the mill, Mr. Rajeshkumar said that an additional ₹2.56 crore has been released to 1,004 members for 73,000 tonnes astatine the complaint of ₹349 per tonne successful 2024-25 and ₹23.47 crore has been fixed to farmers arsenic sugarcane arrears, helium added.
During the function, Mohanur Sugar Mill Managing Director Kuppusamy, District Central Cooperative Bank Director Navaladi, officials from departments acrophobic and farmers participated.
