Mayawati announces steep hike in sugarcane prices
Published: Tuesday, Nov 8, 2011, 19:35 IST
Place: Lucknow | Agency: IANS
With an eye to the 2012 assembly elections, Uttar Pradesh Chief
Minister Mayawati Tuesday announced a steep hike in the sugarcane
purchase price, making it the highest in the country.
"We have decided to increase the sugarcane price by Rs40 per quintal
for the forthcoming crushing season commencing next week," the chief
minister told a press conference here.
Clearly targeting the four million sugarcane growers, she said: "The
state advised price (SAP) for the average variety of sugarcane for the
new crushing season has now been increased from Rs205 per quintal to
Rs245 per quintal."
Claiming that this was the highest sugarcane price fixed by any state
government in the country, she said: "For the early yielding variety
of sugarcane, the price would be still higher at Rs250, while that for
the late yielding variety has been fixed at Rs235."
To make the farmers even happier, the chief minister sounded a warning
for each of the state's 126 sugar-mill owners (including 23
cooperative sector mills) and said: "Start your crushing as per
schedule or else be prepared to face the music."
"The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) government has always been committed to
the cause of the farmers," she said. "That was the reason I did not
hesitate to put owners of sugar mills behind bars who had not cared to
start crushing on time."
Drawing a comparison between the previous regime headed by Samajwadi
Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, she said: "... when I took over the
reins of the government from Mulayam Singh Yadav in 2007, the
sugarcane price was as low as Rs125 per quintal. We have given a
quantum jump and nearly doubled the price of sugarcane, which reflects
our commitment to the cause of sugarcane farmers."
Uttar Pradesh, which remains the largest sugarcane producing state in
the country, is also the second largest producer of sugar. In
2010-2011, the state produced 1,200 lakh tonnes of sugarcane, while
sugar production stood at 59 lakh tonnes.
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