Omnicane Limited, incorporated in 1926, is a public company on the Official List of the

Stock Exchange of Mauritius The Stock Exchange of Mauritius (SEM) (french: Bourse de Maurice); is an organization responsible for the operation of Mauritius's primary stock exchange located at Port Louis. The SEM operates two markets: the Official Market and the Development ...

. It is a modern

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company that has evolved from Mauritius's centuries-old sugar industry ( List_of_sugar_mills_in_Mauritius). Omnicane's primary activity within the

Sugar industry of Mauritius The growing of sugar cane has been the dominant industry of Mauritius for most of its inhabited period, until recent decades. The island was uninhabited when first settled with a small base by the Portuguese in 1507. Sugar was introduced on a small ...

is the cultivation of sugarcane and the downstream production of refined

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, thermal energy, and electricity.

Sugarcane Cultivation

Omnicane Agriculture owns and manages some 3,000 hectares of land under cultivation. Around 2,800 hectares are harvested annually and yield circa 225,000 tonnes of sugarcane. In sugar cane agriculture, there are two distinct periods: the crop and the intercrop season which are from June to December and from January to June, respectively. The intercrop season is when most of the replantation and field maintenance is carried out whilst the crop season involves the harvesting and then crushing of cane by Omnicane Milling Operations.

References

{{reflist 1926 establishments in Mauritius Agriculture companies of Mauritius Sugar_companies History of Mauritius Companies based in Port Louis