Haryana government has approved an intensive cane development plan of all ten cooperative sugar mills for the year 2015-16. This step has been taken to make sure that sufficient sugarcane of good quality be available for crushing. There are presently 10 cooperative sugar mills which are in operation under the control of Sugar Federation, while another cooperative sugar mill was being operated by HAFED at Assandh.
For the next crop season, 2015-16, an intensive cane development plan for Rs 42.16 crore has been prepared, out of which Rs 5.70 crore would be borne by the sugar mills as subsidy and remaining Rs 36.46 crore would be made available to farmers as interest-free loan for arranging various inputs like seeds, fertilizers and agro- chemicals.
Haryana State Federation of Cooperative Sugar mills target for sugar recovery has been set at 9.50 percent. The target for cane area has been set for 83,800 hectares with 526 lakh quintals of estimated cane production. The availability of cane for crushing would be 355 lakh quintals according to estimates.