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Ponda: In an attempt to rejuvenate sugarcane crop production by enhancing both the cane quantity and the recovery (the actual sugar content in cane), the Sanjivani sugar factory in Dharbandora will be distributing seed setts (planting material) of three hybrid varieties to farmers from December.
The recovery rate of the hybrid varieties is 11-12% as against the 9% of the existing crop and the factory is eyeing an increased yield from the next crushing season.
The state’s lone sugar factory had procured the hybrids from Gadhinglaj in Maharashtra and will be distributing the seed setts through the Sugarcane Farmers Facilitation Committee.
Committee chairman Narendra Sawaikar said that the seed setts are ready for distribution. Cane yield in Goa has dropped from over 60,000 tonne to below 30,000 tonne.
