The Fiji Sugar Corporation has crushed 1.319 million tonnes of cane as of 8am today.
FSC CEO, Graham Clark says the Labasa Mill has crushed 523,379 tonnes, Lautoka Mill 464,507 tonnes and Rarawai Mill 331,598 tonnes of cane.
Clark says a total of 386,611 tonnes remains to be harvested until the closing of the mills in mid-December.
He says for Viti Levu they will combine Lautoka and Rarawai mill capacity to enable a minimum total of 7,500 tonnes to be crushed per day adding the diversion of cane from Rarawai to Lautoka continues successfully and makes this achievable.
Clark says the Labasa Mill is well placed, assuming current performance continues, to end crushing on time.
He adds the deployment of mechanical harvesters is being co‑ordinated and maximized in all sectors to harvest all flat land cane as soon as possible.
Clark says manual harvesting is being managed by deploying cutting teams from completed farms to those still needing to be cut. This is in addition to efforts by farmers to secure and retain their cutters.
