Sugarcane Arrears

Haryana Agriculture Minister J P Dalal on Monday said that the state government will increase sugarcane prices and soon a decision in favour of cane farmers will be taken. The government will increase the prices of sugarcane. A decision will be made in the coming days after the approval of Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, Dalal said, according to an official statement. He was speaking after chairing the meeting of the Sugarcane Control Board here. Dalal said that sugarcane prices have always been the highest in the country in Haryana. The Haryana government had in January this year announced a Rs 10 per quintal hike in sugarcane price, raising the crop's rate to Rs 372 a quintal. Meanwhile, Dalal, when asked about the incidents of burning paddy straw in Haryana being blamed by some for causing pollution in the national capital, said that incidents of stubble burning in Haryana are fewer "as against 4-5 times more incidents happening in Punjab". "This fact has also been reveale

Cane dues to be paid by sugar mills to farmers stood at Rs 4,445 crore during the 2020-21 season (October-September), with maximum arrears in Uttar Pradesh, Parliament was informed on Wednesday. During the 2020-21 season, a total of Rs 92,804 crore was to be paid towards sugarcane price to the farmers. Out of which Rs 88,359 crore has been paid and the balance Rs 4,445 crore dues are pending, as per the data placed before Lok Sabha by Minister of State for Food Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti. Of the pending dues during 2020-21 season, a maximum of Rs 3,752 crore cane dues is to be cleared by sugar mills in Uttar Pradesh, followed by Rs 394 crore in Maharasthra, Rs 64 crore in Chhattisgarh and Rs 63 crore in Haryana, the data showed. About Rs 52 crore dues need to be cleared to farmers in Uttarakhand, Rs 44 crore in Gujarat, RS 37 crore in Andhra Pradesh, Rs 25 crore in Tamil Nadu and Rs 9 crore in Punjab in the said period, it added. The cane dues of Rs 130 crore are still pending for 2019-

Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday said cane arrears in Uttar Pradesh have reduced to Rs 3,895 crore from Rs 10,661 crore in 2017. Goyal, who is the Minister of Commerce & Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Textiles, virtually inaugurated 50th Convocation Ceremony of National Sugar Institute, Kanpur, according to an official statement. In his inaugural address, Goyal stressed the need to increase productivity and production of sugarcane to boost farmers' income. Goyal said the sugar industry will help increase income of lakhs of farmers in India by raising productivity. It should be the resolve of the institute and its students to increase the productivity and value addition in 50 lakh hectares of land under sugarcane farmers, the minister said. He said the institute and its students have the ability to change lives as well as livelihoods of lakhs of farmers. Goyal highlighted that the country's sugar exports rose 20 per cent to .

While Gujarat is the only state to have gone ahead with staggered payments, the issue of area reservation has been resisted by most states, Maharashtra being an exception

The record drop in stocks has largely been due to bumper exports of seven million tones and diversion of 2.1 million tones of sugar towards ethanol

The solution to the sugar Industry problem lies in any or a combo of a price stabilisation fund, the Gujarat model of payment of cane dues and increased focus on ethanol blending

Sources said the first meeting of a panel constituted to look into various issues pertaining to the sugar sector was held sometime back

Sugar mills owe Rs 16,883 crore to cane farmers as on January 31 of the current marketing year that started in October, Parliament was informed on Tuesday.

Cost-price mismatch is only part of the story; lack of working capital for mills and delay in release of subsidy add to the strain in the entire system

UP mills, mostly private, have outstanding worth nearly Rs 2,000 crore

Officials said sugarcane planting area had come down drastically in the state leading to poor capacity utilisation

Bajaj Hindusthan, Simbhaoli among top defaulters in setting farmers' dues

Mills owe farmers at least Rs 9,000 crore after end of the crushing season.

The issue of sugarcane payments has always been a burning political issue in UP

In last one-and-a-half years, the central government has taken a number of measures to bail out sugar mills as well as cane farmers

Paswan has written to chief ministers of all sugar producing states, including Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, in this regard

Industry calls for immediate increase in minimum selling price as arrears mounting by the day

UP alone accounts for Rs 4,000 crore of arrears comprising almost Rs 2,000 crore and Rs 4,000 crore for the 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons

Seventy-five private mills line up for Rs 40-bn soft loan sponsored by UP government

This move will help boost production of ethanol, used in blending with petrol, and also enable mills to divert some of the sugarcane juice