Guwahati, April 15 -- Assam witnessed a revolutionary milestone in sugarcane production with the recent installation of India's first boilerless sugarcane processing plant at Bamungaon near Lanka in the Hojai district of the State.

Sources stated that the Punjab-based Spray Engineering Devices Limited (SEDL) and Ecotech Agro Mills, developed the plant, setting a new standard for sustainable agro-industrial technology.

According to the officials of SEDL, the plant with a crushing capacity of 500 tonnes per day (TCD) processes sugarcane into high-quality jaggery without generating any smoke, steam, or industrial waste, eliminating the need to burn bagasse to power boilers, making the system fuel-free.

The officials stated that the system...