Ramu Sugar maintaining output despite replanting

RAMU Sugar continues to produce 38,000 tonnes of sugar each day despite challenges.
This was revealed at the company’s 40th anniversary celebrations at Gusap, Ramu in Madang on Monday.
General manager Ruari MacWilliam said despite the company’s move to replant some areas with oil palm, this did not affect the company’s production rate for sugar.
“The production rate is maintained,” he said.
“The last time the company replaced sugarcane and planted oil palm was in 2014.
“From then till now, it has maintained its production to meet customers’ demand.”
MacWilliam said the areas where Ramu Sugar decided to plant oil palm were categorised as low production areas for sugar and that were not suitable for sugarcane to grow.
Technical services manager Eric Wise said 2019 production was affected after sugarcane diseases were identified.
The following years up till now, we have improved after containing the diseases and this year, the company is back into producing the best to meet customers’ demands in producing quality and quality sugar,” he said.
Wise said the factory could produce quantity and quality but what came out of the factory depended on what came in from the fields.
MacWilliam said Ramu Sugar was the only company that produced sugar in the country and it would still produce sugar into the future.