Gengma Sugarcane Sugar

Gengma Sugarcane Sugar

　　Gengma Autonomous County is one of China’s key sugarcane production bases and the top sugar-producing county in Yunnan Province. The sugarcane sugar industry plays a crucial “leading” and “pillar” role in the county’s economic development. With 29 years of development, the Gengma sugarcane sugar industry has initially formed a management approach of “leading enterprise (company) + base + farmers.” The county has three sugar mills with a combined daily processing capacity of 8,800 tons of sugarcane. Among them, the Gengma Sugar Mill has a daily processing capacity of 5,000 tons, making it the largest sugar mill in Southwest China and a state-level medium-sized enterprise. Its main product, the “Jingge Tower” brand white sugar, has been recognized by the China Social Survey Evaluation Center as a “Nationally Recognized Famous Brand Product.” Its by-product, edible alcohol, has obtained the China Light Industry Ministry’s “Edible Alcohol Production License,” and its products have sold well across the country for over 20 years. The three sugar mills also engage in comprehensive utilization of by-products such as medical yeast, bagasse particleboard, xylitol, compound fertilizer, crude protein production, and automobile transportation. In 1997, the “Yunnan Gengma Sugar Industry (Group) Co., Ltd.” was established, laying the foundation for accelerating modern enterprise reforms. According to statistics, by the end of 1998, the county had 288,800 mu of sugarcane fields, with a total agricultural sugarcane yield of 116.2 million tons and an average yield of 4 tons per mu. The average sugar extraction rate was 10.56%. During the 1998/1999 crushing season, the three sugar mills processed a total of 1.0355 million tons of sugarcane, producing 107,000 tons of white sugar, achieving 19 consecutive years of increased production since the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee. The tax and profit contributions from the county’s sugar enterprises increased from 24.56 million yuan in 1980 to 52.33 million yuan in 1998, accounting for 60.3% of the county’s fiscal revenue in 1998.