-The Tribune Subsidy given even when sugar rates soared after fall in 2015 Chandigarh: The Punjab Government today decided to recover Rs 223.75 crore from seven private Sugar Mills, most of them owned by politicians. This recovery is to be made as land revenue arrears for the largesse extended to them by the previous SAD-BJP government. A subsidy of Rs 50 per quintal on the State Advised Price (SAP) of Rs 280-Rs 295...
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UP cane dues: This time, it’s worse -Piyush Srivastava
-The Telegraph Delay in clearing dues affecting Muzaffarnagar farmers as cultivation is their only source of income Lucknow: Sugarcane farmers in Muzaffarnagar have alleged that the eight Sugar Mills in the district have been delaying payments totalling Rs 1,300 crore, a perennial problem of late clearance of dues that is this time hurting the cultivators even more because of the economic crisis perpetrated by the pandemic. Preparing to protest while alleging that the...
More »Windfall for Sugar Mills as Centre allows export of alcohol-based sanitiser -Virendra Singh Rawat
-Business Standard Hit by the slump in sugar demand following lockdown and consequent subdued realisations, mills have run up huge farmers' outstanding pertaining to the current sugar season 2019-20 Lucknow: Unlocking an additional revenue stream for the beleaguered domestic sugar sector, the Central government has allowed the export of alcohol-based hand sanitizer, a commodity in high demand globally in the fight against Covid-19. On May 6, the Centre banned the export of the...
More »As cane dues cross Rs 14,200 crore, UP Sugar Mills petition state govt -Harish Damodaran
-The Indian Express UP mills have, in the current 2019-20 sugar season (October-September) as of May 8, crushed 10,565.49 lakh quintals of cane and produced 120.01 lakh tonnes (lt) of sugar. With cane payment arrears to farmers crossing Rs 14,200 crore, Sugar Mills in Uttar Pradesh have sought a cash subsidy bailout from the state government to enable them to discharge their outstanding dues. “In this hour of deep crisis, we look upon...
More »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...
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