Growth and performance of physical indicators: A study of Sri Venkateswara co-operative sugar ltd., Renigunta, Chittoor district

Abstract

Sugarcane is an important commercial crop cultivated in about 120 countries in the world. Sugarcane is cultivated in an area of 42.40 million hectares in the world. Sugar industry is the second largest in India and first being the textile. This study is mainly based on physical indicators. The secondary data was collected from 2009-10 to 2013-14. The performance of sugar industry was examined by the agreement area, agreement quantity, cane crushed, sugar production, sugar recovery and average cane crushed per day of physical indicators through physical analysis from 1977-78 to 2013-14. The results revealed that, the parameters like agreement area, agreement quantity, and average cane crushed, sugar production, sugar recovery and average cane crushed per day were recorded positive growth rate since establishment to till 2013-2014. Despite positive growth rate recorded for the factory since establishment the growth rate is not much impressive.