Song Con Sugarcane Joint Stock Company ends the 2017 - 2018 crushing season

Mr. Nguyen Ba Quy - Deputy Director of Song Con Sugarcane Joint Stock Company said: Up to this point, 100% of the raw sugarcane area of ​​Song Con Sugarcane Joint Stock Company has been harvested, the factory officially ended the pressing season on April 22.

Transporting sugarcane into production at the factory of Song Con Sugarcane Joint Stock Company. Photo: Xuan Hoang

According to the Company's assessment, this pressing season the unit's raw sugarcane output reached over 400 thousand tons, an increase of more than 70 thousand tons compared to the previous pressing season. The reason, according to Mr. Quy, is due to two factors: Sugarcane area and productivity both increased. In the 2016 - 2017 sugarcane crop, the total raw sugarcane area of ​​the company was over 6,000 hectares, this year it increased to nearly 7,000 hectares; the yield of the previous crop reached an average of 54 tons/ha, now it has increased to 55 tons/ha.

Planting sugarcane with a multi-purpose machine on the raw sugarcane area of ​​Song Con Sugarcane Joint Stock Company. Photo: Xuan Hoang.

In order for people to plant and care for sugarcane according to technical procedures, the Company's agricultural staff is actively following the locality to provide timely guidance, aiming to create a raw sugarcane area for the factory in the next crop to meet both criteria of area and output, striving for a successful pressing season in the 2018-2019 crop year.