Crushing season opens at North Bengal Sugar Mills with target of 11,700 tonnes of sugar from 180,000 tonnes of cane
The 2026-27 cane crushing season of North Bengal Sugar Mills Limited has been inaugurated at Gopalpur in Lalpur upazila of Natore. State Minister for Social Welfare Farzana Sharmin Putul formally opened the season on Friday afternoon by putting cane into the mill's cane carrier.
Speaking as chief guest at the inauguration, the state minister said the government is trying its utmost to turn the country's sugar mills, including North Bengal Sugar Mills, into profitable enterprises.
She said a quarter is conspiring in a planned way to obstruct the government's development work and is still secretly active in pursuing the goals of fascism. She also warned that no one would be spared if they tried to obstruct development.
The state minister added that conspiring against the country while lying low at every level of the administration would not be tolerated in any way. She called on everyone concerned to cooperate sincerely to take the country's sugar industry forward and turn the sugar mills into profitable enterprises.
The event, chaired by Bangladesh Sugar and Food Industries Corporation chairman Shamsuzzaman Suruj, was attended by Industries Ministry secretary Abdun Naser Khan, North Bengal Sugar Mills Limited managing director Farid Hossain Bhuiyan, mill officials and employees, and other concerned persons.
The mill authorities said a target has been set to crush 180,000 metric tonnes of cane this season. The plan is to produce 11,700 metric tonnes of sugar from that cane.
The target for the sugar recovery rate from cane has been set at 6.50 percent.
The mill authorities also said the necessary preparations have been taken to run the cane crushing and sugar production work in order to achieve the set targets.
