e-purjee boosts sugar production

The digital e-purjee system introduced in the sugar mills a year back has ensured a faster delivery order to the sugarcane growers putting the production of sugar up by 38,760 tonne in 2010-11 seasons.
"Issuance of hand written purjee in the manual system takes at lest 7-10 days causing a reduction of earning due to weight loss of sugarcane extraction from the field," said Mahmud-ul-Haque Bhuiya, chairman of Bangladesh Sugar and Food Industries Corporation (BSFIC).
He said after successful introduction of digital e-purjee system through mobile SMS (Short Message Service) make available purjee in a minute that contribute significantly in the profit earning.
Due to the easier process of e-purjee, farmers supplied 15,81,907 tonne of sugarcane in the season that was almost double compared to the previous crop season.
The turn up of issued purjee has also been increased by 10.53 percent after the introduction of electronic system, he added.
The term 'purjee' refers to the order of buying the sugarcanes from the farmers. The 'e-purjee' is the system where farmer get the order of buying sugarcane through SMS in his mobile instantly after issuing the purjee by computer software.
But, in the manual system, the purjee was sent to the farmer by hand that's why they didn't get the purjee on time, although it had a validity of 3-day.