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Plan to
extract sugar from beet criticised
KARACHI-Pakistan Sugar Mills
Association (PSMA) has criticised the government for its
proposed plan switching over indigenous sugar industry from
cane to beet. In a press statement, a PSMA (Punjab Zone)
spokesman said that every one knew that climate of Punjab and
Sindh was not suitable for sugarbeet cultivation. This meant
bureaucracy was trying to waste public money for nothing, he
added.
He said the sugar crisis prevailing in the country was the
result of wrong policies of bureaucracy and the ministries of
commerce and finance. Now by raising non-issues like
production of sugar from beet, bureaucracy was trying to
protect its wrong policies, he said. The spokesman expressed
surprise over the news that the government had sought help
from Iran for the production of sugar from beet.
In late 70s, he pointed out, it was Pakistan that transferred
sugar technology to Iran. "Now, how Iran can offer better
technology to Pakistan," he asked. The spokesman asked the
government to take steps in the right direction to save the
indigenous sugar industry.
Courtesy The News March
30, 2002
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