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The Andhra Pradesh Government will set up an expert committee to study the challenges faced by the sugar industry and workers. The committee will have financial, technical, agriculture and management sectors and submit the report in 45 days with recommendations to turn around the sugar industry.
At a meeting here on Tuesday with Managing Directors of sugar factories, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu said it was important to bring cooperative sugar factories under the management of professionals.
The Chief Minister asked the industry representatives to go for modernisation and increase production capacity. He wanted the farmers in rain-fed areas to go for drip irrigation to increase yields.
Of the 29 sugar factories in the State, as many as 24 are operational, including 17 in the private sector, with a total crushing capacity of 91,200 tonnes. Andhra Pradesh grows sugar cane in 1.10 lakh hectares.
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