The North Queensland Tully Sugar Mill, above, owned by the Chinese agribusiness company COFCO , which will undergo a $6.5 million upgrade between now and the start of the next crushing season in late May .
Meanwhile , Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has been called on to play a leading part in settling the contract dispute between canegrowers and the large Singapore based agribusiness , Wilmar International. A full page newspaper advertisement inserted by Geoff Cox, of Ayr ,a substantial supplier of sugarcane to Wilmar's Pioneer Mill in the Burdekin , says he is aware that the company's chairman , Kuok Khoun Hong , third richest man in Singapore, has written to the PM seeking his intervention in the dispute, negotiations said to have become "personal and bitter ." He urges the PM to seriously consider the letter and adjudicate a meeting between Kouk and fresh eyes in the hope to resolve the issue , taking into account there are factors relating to the Australian industry that he has not fully appreciated.
Meanwhile , Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has been called on to play a leading part in settling the contract dispute between canegrowers and the large Singapore based agribusiness , Wilmar International. A full page newspaper advertisement inserted by Geoff Cox, of Ayr ,a substantial supplier of sugarcane to Wilmar's Pioneer Mill in the Burdekin , says he is aware that the company's chairman , Kuok Khoun Hong , third richest man in Singapore, has written to the PM seeking his intervention in the dispute, negotiations said to have become "personal and bitter ." He urges the PM to seriously consider the letter and adjudicate a meeting between Kouk and fresh eyes in the hope to resolve the issue , taking into account there are factors relating to the Australian industry that he has not fully appreciated.
