The Haryana State Federation of Cooperative Sugar Mills Ltd.

About SUGERFED

Brief History

The Haryana State Federation of Cooperative Sugar Mills Ltd. was established in 1966 with the objectives to improve the performance of the Cooperative Sugar Mills and to establish new Cooperative Sugar Mills in the State of Haryana. At present 10 Coop. Sugar Mills are in operation in Haryana affiliated to Sugar Federation. An another Coop. Sugar Mills at Assandh (2500 TCD) is being operated by the HAFED.

Vision

To work harmoniously for overall progress and prosperity of farmers by paying fair returns to sugarcane, generation of employment, trading activities and environment friendly industrialisation

National Vision Components for Cooperatives

1. “Sahakar se Samriddhi” (Cooperation to Prosperity for Sugarcane Farmers): A central goal of the Ministry of Cooperation, this vision emphasizes using the cooperative model as a vehicle to bring prosperity to every village and farming household through economic empowerment and self-reliance.

2. Promotion of the Cooperative-Based Economic Development Model: Encouraging cooperatives to take a lead role in agri-industries, processing, finance, and marketing – thereby ensuring wealth generation at the grassroots.

3. Doubling Farmers’ Income: Through value addition (ethanol, briquettes, molasses), fair pricing mechanisms, and reducing intermediaries, the cooperative sugar mills contribute toward the national goal of doubling farmer incomes.

4. Digital Transformation of Cooperatives: Adopting technology and digital platforms like NeML, AgriBazaar, MFMB, NSWS, and ERP systems for transparency, farmer ease, and operational efficiency, in line with India’s Digital India mission.

5. Atmanirbhar Bharat (Self-Reliant India): Strengthening local production and reducing dependency on imports by promoting indigenous ethanol, green energy, and agro-based industrial clusters.

6. Green Energy & Sustainability: Establishing ethanol plants, bio-CNG units, and bagasse briquetting aligns with India’s international commitments on climate change and the goal of Net Zero Emissions by 2070.

7. Cooperative Modernization and Professionalization: Infusing skilled talent, performance benchmarks, training programs, and global best practices into the cooperative sector.

8. Youth & Women Empowerment through Cooperatives: Enabling inclusive growth by involving rural youth and women in sugarcane farming, value chain enterprises, and decision-making bodies.

9. Food & Energy Security: Sugar, ethanol, and CBG production from cooperatives contribute directly to India’s long-term food and energy security strategy.

Objectives

•  Establishing new Coop. Sugar Mills & up-gradation of the existing Mills with the addition of value added projects of by products.

• Arrangements of funds from Govt. of India, State Govt. and Financial Institutions.

• Rendering advice & assistance to the existing Coop. Sugar Mills for improving their performance in the technical, financial and cane development areas.

• Preparation of Cane Development Plan for improving productivity and income to the farmers from sugarcane crop.

Social service factors & production aspects of the Coop. Sugar Mills

•  Ten Coop. Sugar Mills render service to about 40000 sugarcane growers families out of total 6 Lac farming families in the State

•  Cooperative Sugar Mills have a Crushing capacity of 306500 qtls. sugarcane per day.

• Mills can crush more than 4 crore qtls. of cane per season.

•  During the crushing season 2024-25, Cooperative Sugar Mills crushed 3.04 crore qtls. of cane at 9.16% recovery and produced 27.52 lac qtls. of sugar.