Sugarcane Price

Minister for Sugarcane Development and Sugar Mills Laxmi Narayan Chaudhary said the Uttar Pradesh government will ensure that sugar mills pay the dues of sugarcane farmers within a week. "At present, sugarcane farmers in 105 sugar mills of the state are getting payment within 10 days," he told reporters on Sunday. Hitting out at the opposition parties, Chaudhary said, "During previous governments, ensuring prompt payment to sugarcane farmers was considered a difficult task." He informed that over Rs 2.04 lakh crore had been paid to the farmers for their sugarcane produce within a period of six years. The minister said Rs 21,620 crore had been paid till March 31 against the crushing of 930 crore tonnes of sugarcane this season. He said at present 96 sugar mills with high production are running in the state. Chaudhary said instructions have been issued to keep all these mills running till the sugarcane of all the farmers is not crushed. According to the minister, the state is on t

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Wednesday announced a Rs 10 per quintal hike in sugarcane price, raising the crop's rate to Rs 372 a quintal. The new price will come into force from the current crushing season. Khattar said that safeguarding the interest of farmers is the utmost priority of the state government. "I urge the farmers that the prices have been hiked and now they should bring their sugarcane to the mills so the mills can run smoothly. Closure of sugar mills is neither in the interest of the farmers nor of the mills," he said. Crushing at sugar mills had recently come to a halt as protesting farmers had stopped supply of sugarcane by locking the main entrances of the fourteen mills in the state. The farmers had been demanding a hike in the sugarcane's state advised price from Rs 362 to Rs 450 per quintal. According to an official statement, the Chief Minister said though the current sugar price has not increased as expected, Haryana is giving high prices

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Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Monday announced increasing the price of sugarcane to Rs 380 per quintal from the existing Rs 360 per quintal. He announced a hike in SAP (state agreed price) of sugarcane on the floor of the Punjab Assembly on the concluding day of its brief session. In August 2021, the then Congress government had announced a Rs 50 per quintal hike in SAP of sugarcane to Rs 360 per quintal. Mann said farmers will get an additional Rs 20 per quintal under SAP of sugarcane as compared to last year. With this decision, the state government will spend an additional Rs 200 crore annually to benefit the farmers. Mann said the farmers of the state eagerly want to adopt sugarcane crop under crop diversification, but they are hesitant for it due to lack of adequate price and timely payment of the crop. At present, sugarcane is cultivated on just 1.25 lakh hectares of land in Punjab, while the total crushing capacity of sugar mills was around 2.50 lakh hectares. Thi

The Uttar Pradesh government is working to ensure that in the next couple of years, sugarcane farmers are paid their dues within 10 days as opposed to 14 days currently: Sugarcane Development Minister

Govt should avoid populist measures in cane pricing

Hike which is among the highest under BJP govt in UP, yet may not assuage protesting farmers, many of whom come from the sugarcane growing western part of the state

The Haryana government on Thursday decided to increase the sugarcane price by Rs 12 per quintal to Rs 362 per quintal, higher than neighbouring Punjab's Rs 360, for the 2021-22 crushing season.

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The Centre on Wednesday increased the minimum price sugar mills pay to sugarcane growers by Rs 5 to Rs 290 per quintal for the next marketing year starting October 2021

Farmers seeking a hike in sugarcane prices continued to block rail tracks and a national highway in Punjab's Jalandhar

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Thursday approved a Rs 15 per quintal hike in the State Agreed Price (SAP) of all sugarcane varieties for the 2021-22 crushing season

Proposed reforms are good but much more needs to be done

Sources said the first meeting of a panel constituted to look into various issues pertaining to the sugar sector was held sometime back

It has also pitched for a one-time increase in minimum sugar price to Rs 33 per kilo to help sugar mills cover the cost of production

This is the second straight year that the govt has kept prices unchanged. It had hiked the price by Rs 10 per quintal for the common variety in its maiden year in office, during 2017-18 season

Allahabad HC did not restrict the Yogi Adityanath government from fixing SAP for the current crushing season 2018-19 or make any observation regarding its maintainability

The decision also comes at a time when Karnataka, a leading sugarcane producing state, is going for legislative assembly polls on May 12