Thakurgaon Sugar Mills starts crushing

Thakurgaon Sugar Mills Ltd yesterday began producing sugar from sugarcane for this year although over 12,000 tonnes of sugar of last three seasons are still piled up there.

Almost 4,000 tonnes of sugar have already rotted, said Managing Director of the mill Enayet Hossain, urging the government to increase the duty on importing sugar and to conduct campaigns for informing people more about the nutrition value of plantation white sugar.

Lawmaker of Thakurgaon-I constituency Ramesh Chandra Sen inaugurated the sugarcane crushing programme and said a proposal for building a biomass plant in the area to use the by-products of the sugarcane had been sent to the industries ministry to save the sugar industry.