The Uttar Pradesh government has announced an increase in sugarcane price by Rs 25 per quintal. This announcement was made on Sunday, a day before the ‘Bharat Bandh’ of the United Kisan Morcha and the agitation going on for the last nine months against the three agricultural laws of the central government.
Lucknow . The Uttar Pradesh government has announced an increase in sugarcane price by Rs 25 per quintal. This announcement was made on Sunday, a day before the ‘Bharat Bandh’ of the United Kisan Morcha and the agitation going on for the last nine months against the three agricultural laws of the central government. Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath, while discussing the schemes implemented by the central and state governments in favor of farmers, announced an increase in sugarcane price.
Chief Minister Aditya Nath said in the ‘Kisan Sammelan’ organized by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Kisan Morcha in Vrindavan Yojna in Lucknow, “The state government has decided that till now the price of sugarcane which used to get Rs 325 per quintal, will be Rs 25. Will be increased and now Rs 350 per quintal will be available.
Benefiting 45 lakh farmers The
Chief Minister said, “It is our endeavor to give state-of-the-art seeds to the farmer with new technology so that he can move forward in the direction of early sugarcane production.” “This will increase the income of sugarcane farmers by an additional eight per cent and change the lives of 45 lakh farmers. He said that from this 119 sugar mills have to be run and it has to be combined with ethanol.
He said that the farmers would accept the increase in the price of sugarcane in the new season and would take the state forward by increasing the production capacity.
Injustice to farmers – Rashtriya Lok Dal
Meanwhile, Rashtriya Lok Dal National Secretary Anil Dubey said in a statement that the increase in sugarcane price by Rs 25 per quintal is unfair to the farmers. He demanded that the sugarcane price should be raised to at least Rs 450 per quintal.
It is noteworthy that the United Kisan Morcha, which has been agitating for the last nine months against the three new agricultural laws of the Central Government, has announced a ‘Bharat Bandh’ on September 27 at the Kisan Mahapanchayat of Muzaffarnagar on September 5.
Vote hit
Addressing the mahapanchayat, Bharatiya Kisan Union spokesperson Rakesh Tikait had called for giving votes and said that “now the slogan will have to be raised that if there is no price for the crops, then no vote.” Tikait had alleged that there was an increase in the sugarcane price under the BSP and SP governments. But the anti-farmer BJP government did not increase the sugarcane price by even a single rupee in four years.
No more theft of buffaloes
Yogi Adityanath said, “Once in the West, an MP told me that cow buffaloes used to be stolen there. We asked if there was so much chaos, then told that if the buffalo car is running and the car driver went somewhere even for five to ten minutes, then the buffalo used to disappear.
Counting the achievements of his government, he said, “Now illegal slaughter houses (slaughterhouses) have been closed in the state and destitute cow places are running.”
Farmer’s suicide stopped
The Chief Minister said that when the farmers were committing suicide, neither the SP was speaking nor the BSP was speaking and the Congress was not even left to speak by the people, even then we were fighting the farmers’ fight. He claimed that no farmer committed suicide in the state or the country between 2014 and 2021.
State Sugarcane Development and Sugar Mills Minister Suresh Rana told PTI that the minimum support price of early varieties of sugarcane has been increased from Rs 325 to Rs 350 per quintal. Similarly, the support price of normal variety of sugarcane has also been increased by Rs 25 to Rs 340 per quintal, while the price of low quality sugarcane has also been increased by Rs 25 per quintal and it is now increased to Rs 330. Per quintal has been increased to Rs.
