Monthly Archives: December 2016
Guneid Sugar Cane Research Centre
This centre was established in 1981 in order to attain the following objectives:
- Improve sugar cane varieties
- Breed new varieties of high quality sugar cane and resistance to pest and diseases.
- Upgrade in farm agricultural performance
- Promote agricultural technologies in the company’s farms
- Upgrading operations by intensifying the effects of fertilizers and pesticides.
New Halfa sugar factory
- Year of construction : 1965 /1966
- Construction company: Buckau – wolf & BMA, Germany
- Plant capacity
- Sugar factory : 5500 Tons sugar cane crushing per day
- Refinery : 600 tons raw sugar / day
- Products
- Refined sugar : 75,000 refined sugar / year
- Agricultural land : 42,000 Feddans
- Irrigation system : Gravity irrigation from Khashm Elgrba Dam
- Expansion Plans : Planning to expand the capacity of the factory from 5000 TCD to 7000 TCD with a co-generation plant of 30 MW