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Guneid Sugar Cane Research Centre

This centre was established in 1981 in order to attain the following objectives:

  1. Improve sugar cane varieties
  2. Breed new varieties of high quality sugar cane and resistance to pest and diseases.
  3. Upgrade in farm agricultural performance
  4. Promote agricultural technologies in the company’s farms
  5. Upgrading operations by intensifying the effects of fertilizers and pesticides.

New Halfa sugar factory

  1. Year of construction :       1965 /1966
  2. Construction company: Buckau – wolf & BMA, Germany

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  1. Plant capacity
    1. Sugar factory :       5500 Tons sugar cane crushing per day
    2. Refinery         :       600 tons raw sugar / day
  2. Products
    1. Refined sugar :       75,000 refined sugar / year
  3. Agricultural land         :       42,000 Feddans
  4. Irrigation system :       Gravity irrigation from Khashm Elgrba Dam
  5. Expansion Plans :       Planning to expand the capacity of the factory from 5000 TCD to 7000 TCD with a  co-generation plant of 30 MW