Pawar urges sugar co-op factories to produce Oxygen Sharad Pawar has also urged sugar mills to produce medical oxygen at their plants. Pawar, who is the president of Pune-based Vasantdada Sugar Institute (VSI), has conveyed his views through a letter, reports PTI. The NCP chief appealed to sugar mills, who had completed their crushing season, to use their premises to set up COVID-19 care centres and supply oxygen kits to patients. Earlier, co-op giants IFFCO and Kribhco decided to produce medical grade Oxygen to beat the surging Covid cases.