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As Mills Delay Payments Like Every Year, Lockdown Adds to Sugarcane Farmers' Woes -Kabir Agarwal

-TheWire.in

Most sugarcane farmers usually sell a part of their produce at local jaggery producing units, but these remain closed at the moment.

Meerut: Ankur Kumar is a small farmer with a four-acre farm in Muzaffarnagar’s Vahelna. Like every year, he has sown sugarcane on his field and like every year, he is struggling to get his dues from the sugar mill.

“I have deposited 500 quintals so far this season and have only been paid for 150 quintals. The last time I got money was in February,” he told The Wire over the phone. He is owed pending dues of around Rs 1,10,000.

As of April 8, 119 sugar mills in Uttar Pradesh – both private and state owned – owe farmers Rs 12,500 crore. The mills have so far purchased sugarcane worth Rs 28,000 crore, but paid only Rs 15,430 crore, or 55%, according to figures provided by the state cane department.

This problem is faced by farmers in UP every year. At this time last year, mills owed farmers Rs 10,000 crore. But this time, due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the delay is pinching farmers more.

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