Research Mandate

To conduct research and development of appropriate production technologies and services for sustainable and enhanced production of sugarcane, related crops and their derivatives; the milling of such crops and marketing of sugar and its co-products. Establish an effective information management and exchange mechanism and disseminate improves and appropriate sugarcane and sugar production technologies for all players in the industry

The Institute has five major objectives:

• To generate and promote demand driven sugarcane and related crops production technologies and innovations
• To generate and promote appropriate sugar processing technologies, products and services
• To strengthen appropriate policy and market options for enhancing integrated agricultural and sugar processing research
• To strengthen effective and sustainable institutional capacity for implementing integrated agricultural sugar processing research
• To enhance availability of information on integrated agricultural and industrial sugar research