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UP Congress highlights sugarcane farmers' woes & their pending payments

Lucknow, Sep 23 (UNI) Uttar Pradesh Congress president Ajay Kumar Lallu appealed to state Sugarcane Development and Sugar Mill Minister Suresh Rana, asking him to ensure adequate compensation to farmers for the loss of sugarcane crop due to heavy rains and also to ensure that sugar mills clear the pending payments of farmers along with the interest.
In the letter sent to the minister on Wednesday, Mr Lallu has stated that there are reports of heavy damage of sugarcane crops in various districts of the state due to the water-logging caused by heavy rains. He said this has been established even in the government survey of sugarcane growing districts. So far no assurance with regard to the payment of compensation has been given to the affected farmers. They are faced with twin crises – firstly, they have lost their crops due to heavy rains, and they are not getting their pending dues from the sugar mills.
The UPCC chief said there is a reduction in the acreage of land under the sugarcane crop as farmers have neither been adequately paid for their crop as they faced the problem in selling their produce as the sugar mills are closed in the state nor the sugar mills are clearing their old dues. They are not getting any interest paid on their pending payments. All this has worsened the financial condition of farmers. Not only this, the Yogi Government has not revised the price of sugarcane since 2017, but the input cost of farmers is increasing very fast.
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