Demanding higher prices for sugarcane in Uttar Pradesh, Rashtriya Lok Dal President Ajit Singh has said that if sugarcane farmers did not get the right price for their crop, they will gherao the cane mills and stop the supply of their produce to them.
"RLD workers will gherao each mill in the district and will not lift it until increased prices are announced," he said here yesterday.
If corporations or any body oppose the hike in sugarcane price, the supply of cane will be stopped to the mills, he said.
While, Bhartiya Kisan Union today asked the sugar mill owners to provide the right price for the sugarcane produce to the cane growers.
He said that several states including Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana and Maharashtra were paying prices much higher than UP for cane.
"The cane growers in Uttarakhand and Haryana are getting over Rs 220 per quintal but in Uttar Pradesh the farmers are getting much less. The state government should resolve the crisis soon," BKU spokesman Rakesh Tikait said.
A 'Kisan Panchayat' was organised yesterday in Shamli by BKU here where a delegation of BKU leaders met senior bureaucrats and submitted a memorandum demanding minimum SAP of Rs 280 per quintal sugarcane.
Tikait said the government had assured the delegation that efforts were being made to hike cane rates being offered by the sugar mills and directives had been issued to divisional commissioners in this regard.
