First Vice President of Republic and National Prime Minister Bakri Hassan Saleh |
First Vice President of Republic and National Prime Minister Bakri Hassan Saleh inaugurated Wednesday the beginning of the harvest and milling of sugar cane for the production season 2018 -2017 at Sennar and Al-Junaid factories.
The Minister of
Industry Dr. Musa Karama said that the sugar sector was an important and
strategic sector in which the state aims to achieve self-sufficiency by
the end of 2020, especially after the lifting of the siege on Sudan. He
said that they are on the road to organizational and structural reform,
adding that workers are the spearhead in this reform.
He praised the role
played by trade unions in improving the work. "We are partners in these
sites," he said, stressing that the ministry's doors are open to anyone
who submits a proposal to develop the sugar sector, revealing that the
recent decisions on the sugar commodity aim to protect the local product
to become a global competitor after Sudan's accession to the World
Trade Organization. He praised the factories of the Sudanese Sugar
Company in the socio-economic development of local communities.
He pointed to the
plan of his ministry to set up sugar factories in Darfur, Nile River and
Northern states, asserting that Sudan has an industrial base in the
sugar sector enable it to establish these factories.
Dr. Karama
underlined, when he met with Al-Junaid Sugar Factory, the factory has
been in a remarkable development and achieved the highest productivity
and expected to exceed 77,000 tons of sugar cane per feddan, pointing
out that the international standard is 4 tons of sugar per feddan,
explaining that 75,000 tons of cane is equivalent to twice the
international ratio and Al-Junaid produced 7 tons of sugar per feddan,
where the production exceeded 75,000 tons per feddan.
In this regard, farmers who have achieved the highest production rate have been rewarded along the project workers.
He promised to sit
with the administration of the Sudanese Sugar Company and farmers to
address all the problems facing the sugar industry.
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