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- The East-Southern: There are rainfall and dry seasons in a year, with fertile land and
high rainfall amounts. The area under sugarcane production in this region is about 40,000
hectares, the average cane yield ranges from 55 to 65 tons per hectares.
- The South (Mekong River Delta): With more than 100,000 hectares under sugarcane
production, the Mekong River Delta is one of the largest sugarcane regions of all. The cane yield
is highest (about 100-130 tons per hectares), but the cane quality is lowest.
Consumtion
Vietnam’s average sugarcane consumption per capita is estimated at between 8 and 10
kilograms. This compares with the world average of 20 kilogram and in the countries of
European with annual consumption per capita is 26 kilograms. The Government has decided
to reduce the value-added tax rate on sugar and by-products, in order to reduce the price of
sugar, to make the sugar price in Vietnam enough power to competition with outside.
Sugar proccessing
There are 44 sugar factories in Vietnam, with capacity processing about 90,000 tons
per day. The biggest capacity processing is 8,000 tons per day and in that 500 tons cane per
day is lowest once. Because of out of order, two of them were improceess in the current. Most
sugar factories in the North and the Centre have settled up in sugarcane areas, and sugarcane
has been cultivated by good cares of Farmers. Although drought is conduct to low cane yield,
but high quality is led to rise of gross sugar yields. In the South, most factories haven’t settled
up in sugarcane areas, because of high competitive sugarcane with other valid crops like rice,
fruit-trees, rubber, etc.
In 2003-2004 season, 42/44 factories have been working with 82,350 tons of cane per
day and total 10.6 million tons of material cane were processed. The factories processing were
achieved of 85% original capacity (in the 2002-2003 season is 93%). Although yielding
sugarcane is low in this season, but higher quality than 2002-2003 season led to higher gross
sugar yields. The sugar production is achieved 1,069,527 tons, including 300,000 tons of RE
and other sugars 769,527 tons, increasing 1.0% comparison with 2002-2003 season. With
150,000 tons manufactured by small semi-manual factories, so that the gross sugar yields in
2003-2004 season is 1,217,177 tons
Sub-products from cane
In Vietnam 34/42 factories could be produce fertilizer from bagasse, with amount of
200,000 tons per year, of that it only provide 50% of the field’s demand. Every year about 1.6
million litters of alcohol were distilled by molasses from sugar processing too and up to now
polly wood were only process in 3 of 44 factories, with quantity of 30,000 m 3 per year.
Cane material production
In 2003-2004 season, total sugarcane areas are 305,000 ha, with 258,000 ha of dense areas,
cane yield achieved 47.5 tons per ha with 10.9% of average CCS. In the instance of the Vietnam
sugarcanes records have been kept a very old-cultural history. Sugarcane has been growing all of
different regions and Farmers accept science progress of Agro-technologies as easy.
Vietnam has more than 800 clones and varieties, many have good characters were
crossed by ISCR such as drought resistance, pests resistance and high quality, etc. These are
important materials for crossing in the future, which going to supply suitable varieties in
different regions of cultural sugar industry.
Reasons led to low yield and quality of cane
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