"Government aims at giving adequate price to potato growers, if we cannot give them profit, we want to give them price of their produce," Cabinet minister Shrikant Sharma told reporters after a meeting of the state cabinet.
There have been reports that the potato farmers in the state were unable to get a proper price for their produce because of the presence of intermediaries.
Services of four agencies including a central and stateagency will be availed of for purchase of potato, he said.
"Legal action will also be taken against sugar mills if them fail to make payments," Sharma said.
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The UP minister also claimed that outstanding dues of the cane farmers for the sowing seasons 2014-15 and 2015-16 have been already been paid.
Reacting to the claims of Sharma, president of Rashtriya Kisan Manch Shekhar Dixit said the Yogi Adityanath government must tell the people of UP as to what has it done for farmers in the last 20-25 days.
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