A few weeks ago after a "fusarium infection" was detected in sugar cane fields in the North, BSI ASR moved swiftly to activate surveillance teams and inform farmers with the help of SIRDI on how to identify if there is a spread in their fields. But what is the Mill doing to keep their environment safe at the factory? their Cane Farmer Relations manager told us yesterday:
Olivia Carballo Avilez, Cane Farmers Relations Manager, BSI
"The Fusarium that has been recently detected in sugarcane at the moment as the experts have commented BSI was able to bring in two experts one from Florida and one from Mexico who have experience with this Fungus. Last week we did an intensive run through of the cane fields that are being affected we are creating a map to detect where these cane fields are and No BSI at the moment has very few fields affected but we are very concerned about the Canefields of the sugarcane farmers so it is our business and at the end of the day we are going to receive this cane at the Mill and one of the key things is going to be the cane quality coming from these fields that is going to really affect the grinding because it's losing sugar because that means that we are going to have more molasses more reducing sugars and it's going to take a lot or process so we are trying to prepare for that internally at the factory but we are also trying to help the farmers monitor what's going on because we are all new to this and so we are joining forces with the task force that SIRDI is leading and so all these sugar cane farmers are in that task force along with BSI and we are going to give SIRDI and the government as much information and support as we can."
