Shamli sugarcane farmers’ sit-in enters 65th day over price and unpaid dues
Farmers want a cane price of ₹600 a quintal and 15% interest on payments that sugar mills owe them.
Photo: This Photo was taken by Timothy A. Gonsalves . Feel free to / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Sugarcane farmers in Shamli, in western Uttar Pradesh, continued their sit-in protest for a 65th day on 9 November, Dainik Bhaskar reported.
The protest is led by the Kisan Sangharsh Samiti. The farmers want the State to set the price of sugarcane at ₹600 a quintal, and want sugar mills to pay 15% interest on money they owe farmers for cane already supplied. The farmers marked the Govardhan Puja festival at the protest site.
Late payment by sugar mills is a long-running complaint in western Uttar Pradesh, where cane is the main cash crop. The State government announces a price for cane each year that mills must pay.
The report did not say whether the district administration or the mills had responded to the demands.
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