(Baonghean.vn) - In the last days of 2016, the working and production atmosphere from the raw material area to Song Lam Sugarcane Factoryis very urgent and bustling. People in the communes of the sugarcane raw material area in Anh Son are busy harvesting the old crop and planting seeds for the new crop. Employees of Song Lam Sugarcane Factory are also working at full capacity to have a bumper crop in 2016 - 2017, striving to achieve an output of 100 - 120 thousand tons/crop next year.
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| Farmers in the raw sugarcane growing areas (Hung Son, Anh Son) are busy harvesting the sugarcane crop at the end of 2016. Sugarcane productivity in the fields of Nuong Than (village 5), Ve Nang (village 6) reached 52 tons/ha (an increase of 4 tons/ha compared to the previous crop). |
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| Farmers in Hamlet 6 (Hung Son) are excited about this year's high productivity and stable prices. Currently, the factory buys sugarcane seeds at 1,150 VND/ton, sugarcane meat at 900,000 VND/ton, and the factory's price protection for farmers in the field is 850,000 VND/ton. |
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| Technical staff of Song Lam Sugarcane Factory are instructing people in Bai Mo area on how to plant sugarcane properly. Bai Mo area along Lam River has an area of 70 hectares, previously specialized in growing corn, 3 crops per year; income only reached 30 million VND/ha/crop. 2017 was the first year that people switched 30-40 hectares from growing corn to growing sugarcane. Income from each hectare of sugarcane reached about 130 million VND. |
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| The technical team of Song Lam Sugarcane Factory is piloting sugarcane planting for the 2016-2017 crop year using the Belarut multi-function machine on a 12-hectare area in Bai Mo. For each hectare sown by machine, production costs will be reduced by 2 million VND and production time will be 10 times faster than manual work. When using the machine to sow, sugarcane will be cut into 30m sections, each sugarcane cutting has 2-3 buds; the survival rate is 90%. The factory is introducing the new sugarcane variety LK9211 from Thailand with advantages such as no flagging, no grass shoot disease... into production. Currently, the factory maintains investment in seeds, fertilizers, and land preparation costs worth 38 million VND/ha for farmers; of which, the factory lends 24 million VND. |
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| Busy trucks carrying sugarcane from raw material areas to the factory. |
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| Sugarcane is transferred onto carts and conveyor belts to the small milling area. |
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| Milled sugarcane is being operated and processed by the technical department for pressing. |
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| The sugarcane juice processing stage before cooking is done using modern machinery. |
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| The sugarcane juice concentration system of Song Lam Sugar Factory currently has a capacity of 1,500 - 2,000 tons/day. |
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| Mr. Le Cong Thanh (sugar cooking department) carefully checks the sugar crystal sample, content, quality, according to technical requirements. |
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| Finished white sugar is brought out from the conveyor belt. From here, sugar from Song Lam Sugarcane Factory will reach customers everywhere. To achieve the target of 120 thousand tons of pressing output in the next crop year, the factory is introducing new varieties such as QD93-159 and LK92-11 to plant in riverside communes in Dinh Son, Hung Son, Cam Son... Previously, the new sugarcane varieties brought to Hoa Son were successful with a stable 100 hectares and are continuing to be deployed on an area of 50 hectares. |
Tran Hai
