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Sugarcane Farmers News
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The Modi government at the center has given a big gift to 5 crore farmers. The central government has increased the price of sugarcane. Now the price of sugarcane is Rs 135 per quintal.
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Announcing this on the floor of the Punjab Assembly, Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann said that the farmers will get an additional Rs. 20 per quintal under State Agreed Price (SAP) of sugarcane as compared to last year.
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Highest ever FRP for Ganna Kisan.
FRP of 290 Rs/qtl for Sugarcane Farmers.
Decision will benefit the 5 crore sugarcane farmers.
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In the training session 2020-21, as many as 66,963 farmers have been trained to apply modern techniques and advanced technology in sugarcane production
Through the training, record sugarcane production of 81.5 tonnes has been achieved in Uttar Pradesh
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Currently, there are close to five crore sugarcane farmers.
About five lakh workers employed in sugar mills.
Farmers sell their sugarcane to the sugar mills.
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UP Farmers To March To Delhi's Kishan Ghat Over Sugarcane Dues; Watch this report.
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Union minister Prakash Javadekar said that the subsidy would be directly credited into farmers' account on behalf of mills against cane price dues and subsequent balance, if any, would be credited to mill's account.
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Sugarcane farmers in this belt claim that a large share of their dues are yet to be cleared, thus making it difficult for them to make ends meet.
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Last month, the government had announced a Rs 1,500 crore production-linked subsidy for sugarcane farmers to help millers pay cane payments.
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A group of farmers in Uttar Pradesh have written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, threatening suicide over non-payment of sugarcane.
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The arrears to be paid by mills to sugarcane farmers have come down to Rs 6,681 crore from a peak of Rs 17,301 crore in July this year, Parliament was informed on Friday.
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Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Monday led a march in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur district to highlight the problems being faced by sugarcane farmers.
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Emphasising improvement on the liquidity position of sugar industry, government has given 15 more days to banks for disbursing Rs 1,900 crore soft loans to sugar mills.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday told a group of sugarcane farmers from Uttar Pradesh that his government is working with a vision of making the farmers and the villages self-reliant and prosperous.
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The Allahabad High Court today directed Uttar Pradesh government to ensure that sugarcane growers in the state were paid 75 per cent of their dues by July 15 and that legal action was taken against Directors of those sugar mills which failed to pay up in compliance with the order.
Without any government incentive, Indian sugar is uncompetitive in world markets well supplied by low-cost producers Brazil and Thailand.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday met Union Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan and sought extension of subsidy on raw sugar exports and hike in import duty on the sweetener to 40 percent to help cash-starved mills clear cane arrears to farmers.
Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan made it clear to mill owners that threats are not the right way to solve problems because farmers have other options and they do not have.
Food and Civil Supplies Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said the money would go directly into the accounts of farmers so as to avoid any malpractice by the mills.
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