National Sugar Company needs zl. 260 million to restructure

The head of the National Sugar Company (KSC), Wladyslaw Lukasik, announced during a meeting with the Sejm's Agriculture and Treasury Commissions yesterday, that the company will need over zl. 260 million in order to conduct the planned restructuring. The plan, which was recently prepared, foresees maintaining production in only eight or nine out of the total of 26 sugar plants which together form Polish Sugar. During the meeting, the Undersecretary of State at the Treasury Ministry, Jozef Wozniakowski criticized the plan to close down the plants and proposed to make them specialize in purchasing and storing sugar. The Ministry will also try to change the production profile of some of these plants. "I am not sure whether we can find zl. 261 million for restructuring, we might have to request a change to the budget bill," Wozniakowski said in a statement. (Rzeczpospolita, p. B2) A.K.