Yogi announces hike in sugarcane MSP by Rs 25 per quintal a few months before UP elections

Sugarcane farmers wait with their bullock carts to unload their crops outside Modi Sugar Mill in Modinagar, Uttar Pradesh. Photographer: Anindito Mukherjee | bloomberg

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Lucknow: In a major decision barely a few months before the upcoming 2022 assembly elections, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday announced a hike in the procurement prices of sugarcane in the state by Rs 25 per quintal.

Addressing a meeting of farmers organized by the BJP’s Kisan Morcha, Adityanath said, “The government has decided to increase the price of the variety of sugarcane for which farmers were paid Rs 325 per quintal to Rs 350. Rs., which will be paid. to the farmers.”

“The government has also decided to increase the price of ordinary sugarcane from Rs 315 (per quintal) to Rs 340 (per quintal). The government has also decided to increase the price of ‘aapuit’ (low yielding) sugarcane by Rs 25 per quintal.

Elaborating on the benefits, Adityanath said, “This will enable sugarcane farmers to increase their income by 8 per cent, and change the lives of 45 lakh farmers.”

He also said that 119 sugar mills would be operationalized, and they would be linked to ethanol.


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