For promoting sugarcane farming in the State, the Punjab Government has decided to modernise all the sugar mills of the State.
The State Government will also be clearing outstanding payments of
Rs200 crore to the sugarcane farmers, said Financial Commissioner (Cooperation) and Principal Secretary to Punjab Chief Minister SK Sandhu on Monday, while interacting with the farmers after participating in a seminar, organised in collaboration with Budhewal Cooperative Sugar Mills limited.
Sandhu said that the Punjab Government has decided to make sugarcane as main pick of State’s crop diversification, under which all sugar mills of the state would be modernized.
“First and foremost, the capacity of sugar mills will also be increased. The capacity of Bhogpur Sugar Mill has increased from 1,600 metric tonne to 3,000 metric tonne. The capacity of remaining sugar mills is also to be increased,” he said. He said that all sugar mills have been directed to distribute sugarcane seeds to the farmers.
“For clearing outstanding payments to the farmers, the Punjab Government has kept a budget of Rs300 crore, out of which Rs100 crore has already been issued while the remaining Rs200 crore would be issued soon,” he added.