The highest sugarcane price in Uttar Pradesh paid by sugar mills this crushing session is likely to lead to a hike in the sugarcane sowing area, which had been seeing a decrease for several years now.
A GOVERNMENT plan to buy ethanol for blending with petrol at a price of Rs 27 per litre may be limited to six months, although agriculture minister Sharad Pawar has asked the price to be frozen for the next three years in line with the demand by sugar mills.
At a time when NCP chief Sharad Pawar has come under attack over rise in prices of sugar and other essential commodities, the party magazine Rashtravadi has said that
Acting tough on 283 sugar mills and 22 groups of sugar mills, which did not sell their prescribed quota of sugar in the market during the month of December, the government has converted a total of 3.6 lakh tonnes of sugar from these mills into levy quota that it will sell through its ration shops.
With his basic needs mounting, the sugar mills not yet operating and the window for sowing his wheat crop narrowing, Amarjit Singh of Kayastha Ganwadi village in Meerut district decided he couldn
LUCKNOW: Even as the Uttar Pradesh government issued directives to the Divisional Commissioners and District magistrates (DMs) for evolving a consensus on the sugarcane farmers getting a price more than the State Advised Price (SAP), the growers have threatened to intensify their agitation. The cane farmers have demanded a price of Rs. 280 per quintal.
