The company “Agar Sugar” has resumed work at full capacity. More than 500 people are employed in the manufacture. Most of the employees are local.
The company says, that it will be replace 50 percent of sugar imports. By the end of the year, the factory plans to produce 65,000 tons of sugar. The enterprise will benefit from a support package from the state, which includes benefits on natural gas supply and rail transportation tariffs. The“Agar Sugar” Factory stopped working for the second time on November 1, 2018 and switched to conservation. Since 2017, trade unions have been actively involved in the process of negotiating and setting up the factory. It was decided to open “Agar Sugar” at the meeting of the Intergovernmental Coordination Council of the Government on April 3 of this year.