GUA MUSANG: The scorching weather in this district has brought good fortune to the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) of a local school, as they are able to generate income by selling fresh sugarcane juice in response to high community demand.
Coordinator of the Agro School programme Ahmad Fakhrurrazi Che Daud, said SK Lepan Jaya’s PTA initiative of directly processing and selling sugarcane juice on the school premises has proved fruitful and the income generated supports student welfare.
“Our daily production of sugarcane juice since March has yielded remarkable sales. Last month alone, we recorded a profit exceeding RM10,000.
“This income will be used to assist all students, most of whom come from low-income families,” he told Bernama when met at SK Lepan Jaya recently.
According to Ahmad Fakhrurrazi, sugarcane juice is sold at RM3 for every 800ml. About 200 packs are sold daily.
He said the project started in 2022, and now they have 300 clumps of sugarcane consisting of both red and yellow varieties.
Meanwhile, programme advisor Jailani Mat Jusoh said that besides being a beverage, buyers also turned sugarcane into “manisan cair” (liquid sweetener), with over 2,000 stalks of red sugarcane sold for this purpose last month.
He said they are now planning to expand sugarcane cultivation in available spaces around the school premises to meet the increasing demand.
