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Almost 30 per cent of the sugar produced in the world is from sugar beet. Pawar said along with cultivation of sugar beet, they are also experimenting with various types of irrigation systems. Till date, the 175 mills in operation have crushed 278.36 lakh tonnes of cane and produced 28.28 lakh tonnes of sugar. AdvertisingRohit Pawar, chief executive officer, said for the trial run, the company has undertaken cultivation of around 150 acres of sugar beet. Field trials of sugar beet have been undertaken earlier by Rana Sugars Limited, a Punjab-based sugar mill that cultivated this beet on over 8,000 acres of land, said Deshmukh..