adminTongaat Hullet last year launched the Sustainable Rural Communities project (Susco) that seeks to rehabilitate and replant about 16 000 hectares of sugar cane plots.
The farmers at Mkwasine, Hippo Valley and Triangle sugar estates benefited from Government’s land reform programme. Tongaat Hullet managing director Mr Sydney Mtsambiwa yesterday said they had so replanted and rehabilitated 7 000 hectares of sugarcane plots.
The project was due for completion in the 2014-15 farming season.
“We hope that on its completion our out growers will make at least US$100 million from their sugarcane and we are doing this under our Susco project,” said Mr Mtsambiwa.
The farmers would earn at least US$34 million from their cane crop this year.
Tongaat Hullet is this year expected to produce 372 000 tonnes of sugar on the back of improved sugarcane production by new farmers. Mr Mtsambiwa said sugarcane production has been increasing since the 2008-2009 farming season when the company produced about 300 000 tonnes of sugar. Tongaat Hullet aims to reach between 450 000 and 500 000 tonnes of sugar output in the 2012-2013 farming season.
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