EID Parry unit gets Bonsucro award

EID Parry (India) Ltd., on Thursday, said that its focus on sustainable sugarcane cultivation practices over the past few years had helped farmers achieve higher yield at lesser cost. The company also secured the prestigious Bonsucro certification for production standards.

The sugarcane farmers, particularly the ones with small land holding, attached to EID Parry’s Pugalur factory, located in Karur district of Tamil Nadu, has been able to improve yields by at least 10 per cent when compared with the levels two years ago through a range of sustainable actions initiated by the company as part of the programme to obtain Bonsucro certification, the world benchmark for best practices in sugar production.

Managing Director of the company, V.Ramesh said that Farmers of our factory could achieve an output of 36 tonnes per acre as against industry level of sub-30 tonnes per acre in this season said.

Pugalur sugar plant is the first in Asia to secure the certification and joins a 46-strong list of Bonsucro production standard certificate holders, with the other mills located in Brazil, Australia and Honduras.

Under Bonsucro framework, sugar-producing companies need to ensure that the agricultural practices followed are sustainable in the long term, protecting the farmer, the customer, the community and the environment. EID Parry intends to replicate the Pugalur model in its other eight factories located across three southern states in the future.

source: thehindu