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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Unpaid dues to cane farmers over Rs 15,000 crore: Govt -Shagun Kapil

Unpaid dues to cane farmers over Rs 15,000 crore: Govt -Shagun Kapil

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published Published on Sep 15, 2020   modified Modified on Sep 17, 2020

-Down to Earth

Sugar prices had remained depressed, which had affected the liquidity of sugar mills, a govt reply said

While the new sugar-crushing season is set to begin from October, the outstanding payment dues to sugarcane farmers across the country stand at Rs 15,683 crore as on September 11, according to a reply given to a question in Parliament on September 15, 2020.

Of this, Rs 12,994 crore pertains to crop procured during the 2019-20 marketing season, the reply added.

Farmers in Uttar Pradesh (UP) were the worst-affected as the state had the highest share in unpaid dues, at Rs 10,174 crore. Of this, Rs 10,000 crore was of the 2019-20 sugar season that started in October 2019.

For 2017-18, unpaid dues amounted to Rs 39 crore and for 2016-17 and previous years, the arrears stood at Rs 135 crore respectively.

The UP government had issued notices to defaulting sugar mills, including directing them to clear cane price arrears of farmers, Union Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food, and Public Distribution Danve Raosaheb Dadarao informed the Lok Sabha in a written reply.

UP was followed by Tamil Nadu and Gujarat, where the total unpaid dues of the last three years amounted to Rs 1,834 crore and Rs 924 crore respectively.

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Down to Earth, 15 September, 2020, https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/agriculture/unpaid-dues-to-cane-farmers-over-rs-15-000-crore-govt-73390?fbclid=IwAR1OOjzS1vhDnqu9TrK5cLj9AV7Dpvma3Kdn3NP0MLiv4tNhA3-jtjxWlRY


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