A model sugar cane mill that will process cane from the Cruz Verde project in Monte Plata province was opened last week. With a capacity to produce 4,000 kilos a day of unrefined sugar, the mill is the first to be installed with an organic sewage treatment plant. Gerhard Schenpel, spokesman for the Friedrich Naumann Foundation from Germany that provided technical consulting for the mill, explained that some 3,000 families will now benefit. The mill was built with funds provided by the German Government.