UP govt’s comprehensive strategy to benefit over 50 lakh sugarcane farmers
As part of its second term, the UP government formulated a comprehensive five-year strategy to transform the sugar industry in the state.
As part of its second term, the UP government formulated a comprehensive five-year strategy to transform the sugar industry in the state.
With the efforts of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, 120 sugar mills are operating today in Uttar Pradesh. In the year 2021-22, 1,016.26 lakh tonnes of sugarcane was crushed by these sugar mills from which 101.98 lakh tonnes of sugar was produced. In 2022-23 so far.
A coffee table book based on the glorious journey of 120 years of the sugar industry was released by the Chief Minister,
The matter was resolved during a meeting of farmer union leaders with the Chief Minister here this afternoon, during which Captain Amarinder, while agreeing to the SAP hike, said the state’s fiscal situation had prevented adequate increase in SAP for the past three to four years.
Though the state government has declared sugarcane crushing an essential service in the lockdown yet the farmers are worried about their crop, a good quantity of which is still in the fields while the harvest season of wheat has arrived.
Will sugar be the decisive issue in western Uttar Pradesh when the eight Lok Sabha constituencies here go to polls? The answer will become clear only on 23 May but on the ground sugarcane farmers are unhappy.
The farmers even refused to give up their protest on the occasion of Karwachauth on Saturday as a consequence of which their wives decided to join them and celebrate the festival with their men.
Punjab farmers have criticised the state government’s decision on Monday to hike sugarcane prices by just Rs 10, from Rs…
Eight sugar mills owe over Rs.400 crore to sugarcane farmers in the district, an official said on Saturday. District Cane…
