Song Con Sugarcane Joint Stock Company is ready for the new pressing season.

High sugarcane yield

Tan Ky is known as a locality with advantages for developing raw sugarcane, farmers here have been attached to sugarcane for many decades. Sugarcane cultivation not only eliminates hunger and reduces poverty, but many households have become well-off from renting land to grow sugarcane.

Coming to Giai Xuan commune in the early days of November, the vast, green sugarcane fields are ready to enter the harvest season. People are clearing away dry leaves - the last part of the production cycle, to prepare to receive the fruits after a year of hard work cultivating for a sweet sugarcane season...

According to sugarcane growers, compared to cassava and corn, sugarcane is a much more effective raw material.The first,Sugarcane does not require much care so it is suitable for the current rural labor situation.Monday, capital, initial investment costs are advanced by the Company, loaned until harvest to be repaid.Tuesday,The product is sugarcane, 100% purchased by the company. Therefore, farmers feel secure and confident in renting land to grow sugarcane and expand the area.

Mr. Truong Hai Vinh's family in Ke Mui hamlet, Giai Xuan commune said that in the past, their 3 sao of high land, which was used for growing corn and rice, were ineffective. For several years now, they have switched to growing sugarcane. Not only that, the family has also rented more land to grow sugarcane. Growing sugarcane in the past involved working the land, harvesting, hiring workers, providing meals, etc., but now it is mechanized, so there is no need to worry about anything. Now, they only need to take care of it according to the correct process and techniques, and prevent pests and diseases in a timely manner to ensure productivity, output, and achieve high sugar content to sell at a high price.

Mr. Vu Ngoc Son - Chairman of Giai Xuan Commune People's Committee said: In recent years, the price of raw sugarcane has increased, so people in the commune have invested more in growing raw sugarcane. This year's crop, the whole commune has nearly 900 hectares of raw sugarcane, the highest ever, of which nearly 200 hectares are grown in large fields. Thanks to technical guidance and the application of synchronous mechanization in intensive sugarcane cultivation, production costs have decreased, productivity and output in Giai Xuan are expected to increase to 70 tons/ha, much higher than the previous crop. For concentrated sugarcane growing areas, the yield is from 90 - 120 tons/ha. If the price of sugarcane is stable like the previous crop, it is expected that people will have an income of 100 - 110 million VND/ha, with an estimated profit of 40 - 50 million VND/ha.

In the 2024 - 2025 crop year, the raw sugarcane area of ​​Song Con Sugarcane Joint Stock Company is nearly 6,000 hectares, most concentrated in Tan Ky district, followed by Thanh Chuong, Yen Thanh, Do Luong and Anh Son districts. Although this year, white cotton aphid disease appeared on some sugarcane areas, due to timely detection and early control, along with quite favorable weather, drought not as severe as last year, so the raw sugarcane yield in Tan Ky district developed well, with higher yields. At the same time, with the introduction of new sugarcane varieties: KK3 and LK9211 into cultivation, it has proven its outstanding advantages: few pests and diseases, good drought resistance, tall, plump plants, high sugar content, high yield and output, so sugarcane growers are very excited.

Mr. Nguyen Ba Quy - Deputy Director of Song Con Sugarcane Joint Stock Company added: This year, the weather is generally favorable, so the average sugarcane yield is expected to reach 60 tons/ha (last year, 57 tons/ha). In particular, there are plots in Tan Long, Giai Xuan, Nghia Dong communes... that are planted in concentrated areas, cared for according to technical processes, achieving a yield of 120 - 140 tons/ha. Due to this year's outstanding yield, the raw sugarcane output of Song Con Sugarcane Joint Stock Company is estimated at over 360 thousand tons.

Ready for the squeeze

To prepare for a successful pressing season, Song Con Sugarcane Joint Stock Company has proactively arranged workers, engineers, maintenance, repair of machinery and production lines, to ensure a capacity of 3,300 tons/day. With this capacity, the company will use up all of the farmers' raw sugarcane resources, limit the backlog of raw materials during the main season, and at the same time improve the quality of finished sugar.

According to the leader of Song Con Sugarcane Joint Stock Company, the sugar price in the market is still unstable. Currently, the factory is in the stage of completing equipment, testing, especially recently the company invested in installing Indian power turbines, with large capacity, providing enough electricity for the factory to operate, replacing the previous small capacity turbine. At the same time, the company invested more than 1 billion VND, coordinating with local raw material areas to repair and upgrade internal roads to serve the transportation of sugarcane materials easily and conveniently.

To reduce costs and labor for sugarcane growers, the company is expected to contract 2 sugarcane harvesters to serve the people. Accordingly, the area harvested by machine will reach about 15 - 20%, on the total area of ​​more than 5,000 hectares of sugarcane in Tan Ky district. With a machine capacity of 200 - 250 tons/day, the productivity is calculated to be hundreds of times that of ordinary labor, the machine rental price is only about 170,000 VND/ton, cheaper than hiring workers.

In the 2025 - 2026 sugarcane crop, Song Con Sugarcane Joint Stock Company plans to plant 1,900 hectares of new sugarcane and maintain nearly 4,000 hectares of sugarcane. Accordingly, the company will continue to plant new varieties: KK3 and LK9211. Accompanying farmers in expanding sugarcane raw material areas, the Company has a policy of rewarding sugarcane growers with 30 tons of sugarcane sludge treated with microorganisms for 1 hectare of newly planted sugarcane and an average bonus of 20% (VND 100,000/ton) of the weight of sugarcane imported to the Company daily that is assessed as clean sugarcane (clean sugarcane is sugarcane with less than 3% impurities), to encourage farmers to reduce unnecessary costs and reduce production costs for the factory.

A sugarcane harvest is approaching, with careful preparation of equipment and factory lines, along with outstanding sugarcane productivity, it is hoped that sugarcane growers in Tan Ky district will have a bumper sugarcane harvest.