The MCAF Board of Directors 2022-2023

The MCAF acts as the mouthpiece of the planting community grouped in co-operatives and therefore is represented on the boards and committees of several institutions which are closely associated with the sugar industry. The representatives have a say in the decision making process and as such safeguard and protect the interests of small planters. Some of the institutions where the MCAF has its representatives are:

> Mauritius Co-operative Alliance Ltd
> The Mauritius Sugar Syndicate
> Mauritius Sugarcane Industry Research Institute
> Control & Arbitration Department – The Mauritius Cane Industry Authority
> Sugar Insurance Fund Board
> St. Antoine Multi-Purpose Co-operative Trust
> The Nation Pensions Appeal Tribunal

Sub Committees

> Staff appointment & Disciplinary Committee.
> Pesticides Importation & Sales Committee
> Marketing Committee
> Audit Committee
> Mount & Beau Plan Planters Fund
> Bio fert Company Ltd
> Building Committee
> Mechanisation Unit

Membership

Its membership consists of 117 Co-operative Credit Societies. 10,466 planters have consigned cane for Crop 2021 in which 5,746 planters are enrolled in Co-operative Credit Societies. The total area harvested for Crop 2021 by CCS’s planters is 5,818 ha producing 27,111 tons of sugar.

Crop 2021 factory area basis:

> Total number of planters having consigned for the whole county: 10,466.
> Number of CCS planters: 5,746
> Percentage of planters operating through CCS’s: 55%
> Total extent harvested for the country: 39,642 Ha.
> Extent harvested by CCS planters: 5,818 Ha.
> Sugar produced by CCS planters: 27,111 T.