LAHORE: Sugarcane Growers Association (SCGA) convener Javed Malik has called for up-gradation of power plants of the local sugar mills, which have become obsolete over the period.
He said this during a meeting with Federal Minister for Planning & Development Ch Ahsan Iqbal in Gujranwala along with MPA Pir Ghulam Fareed. Malik briefed Ahsan about salient features of Mamookanjan Plan of high tech German Growers Cooperative Sugar Industrial Complex.
He informed the minister that most of the sugar mills of Pakistan have low pressure boiler technology, which takes 12 tons of steam to produce one 1MW while Germans are offering high tech boilers which take 4 tons of steam to produce one mega watt per hour.
Moreover, Germans are also offering high tech bio gas plants based on filter mud to fire the boilers of power plant of sugar mills. The minister took great interest in presentation and assured that government will do its best to implement the proposals.
