Haryana CM Khattar announces sugarcane price hike to Rs 372 per quintal
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Wednesday announced a Rs 10 per quintal hike in sugarcane price, raising the crop's rate to Rs 372 a quintal.
The new price will come into force from the current crushing season.
Khattar said that safeguarding the interest of farmers is the utmost priority of the state government.
"I urge the farmers that the prices have been hiked and now they should bring their sugarcane to the mills so the mills can run smoothly. Closure of sugar mills is neither in the interest of the farmers nor of the mills," he said.
Crushing at sugar mills had recently come to a halt as protesting farmers had stopped supply of sugarcane by locking the main entrances of the fourteen mills in the state.
The farmers had been demanding a hike in the sugarcane's state advised price from Rs 362 to Rs 450 per quintal.
According to an official statement, the Chief Minister said though the current sugar price has not increased as expected, Haryana is giving high prices