The Chief Minister Harish Rawat has asked the sugarcane farmers to use high quality sugarcane seeds for better yield. The State Government will also provide all kind of assistance to the cane growers. High quality of sugarcane will ensure good price for the producers and sugar mill will get more recovery from the produce. He suggested that the farmers must also concentrate on producing other crops. The private sugar mills have been asked to find out ways to pay the arrears of the sugarcane farmers. CM Rawat suggested this while interacting with the representatives of Farmers’ Union led by National Spokesperson of Bhartiya Kissan Union (BKU) Rakesh Tikait.
The CM said that the state’s cooperative and government sugar mills have given payment to the farmers and private mills owners have been asked to expedite the procedure of payment of sugarcane farmers arrears.
To facilitate the farmers’ welfare, the private mills have been asked to make the payment of arrears. Even the government is ready to provide them loans through co- operative banks.
To ensure timely payment to the sugarcane growers, help is also expected from the Centre. Though the sugar mills have been relieved of several taxes by the state government efforts are also on to address the grievances caused by the stagnant prices of sugar in the national market and differences in the cost of sugar produce & MRP.
To solve the problem, the state government has also reduced the price of Urea and now it is cheaper than that in UP. The representatives of the BKU also apprised the CM of several problems being faced by the sugarcane farmers. The CM has assured them of efforts to solve the problems.
Present in the meeting were Rakesh Tikait and Union’s Sanjay Kumar, Subhash Choudhary, Vijay Shastri, Sushil Rathi, Ranveer Singh and Dharm Singh Panwar among others.