Sugarcane farmers of Haryana would get highest price for their crops from now on. Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Thursday announced that farmers of the state would benefit to the tune of an additional income of Rs 450 crore to Rs 500 crore during the year 2013-14.
Hooda, who was addressing a press conference here announced to give a price of Rs 301 per quintal for the early variety of sugarcane, Rs 295 per quintal for mid variety and Rs 290 per quintal for late variety.
He said that with this hike for the year 2013-14, the rate of early variety of sugarcane has been increased by Rs 25 per quintal as compared to that of 2012-13. Similarly, the rates of mid and late varieties have been increased by Rs 24 per quintal as compared to the year 2012-13.
The chief minister said that during the last eight years of his Government’s tenure, the price of early variety of sugarcane has been increased by Rs 184 per quintal. He said that when his Government had assumed office in 2005, at that time the rate of sugarcane was Rs 117 per quintal, but now it had been increased to Rs 301 per quintal, thus making an increase of 157 per cent.
He said that today three lakh acres of area is under sugarcane cultivation in Haryana.