Cane Growers

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  Congress Leader Threatens To Join Protest Against Amarinder Singh

  Congress leader Partap Singh Bajwa Tuesday threatened to join the ongoing protest of sugar cane growers against the Punjab government's failure to ensure that sugar mills in the state were operational even as the crushing season was on.

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  Cabinet Approves Rs 5,500 Crore Package For Sugar Industry

  The government on Wednesday approved a Rs 5,500 crore package for the sugar industry that includes over two-fold jump in production assistance to cane growers and transport subsidy to mills for export up to 5 million tonnes in the marketing year 2018-19.

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  Sugarcane Prices Hiked By Rs 20 To Rs 275 Per Quintal

  The government has decided to increase the minimum price sugar mills pay to cane growers by Rs 20 per quintal to Rs 275 per quintal for the next marketing year starting October.

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  Cane Farmers to Get Direct Subsidy for Arrears

  Concerned over arrears to cane growers from sugar factories amounting to more than Rs 21,000 crore (over $3 billion) in the last season, the government on Wednesday fixed a subsidy of Rs 4.50 per quintal crushed, which will be payable directly to farmers.

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  Government to Pay Rs 45/Tonne Incentive to Cane Growers: Report

  Government would directly pay farmers Rs 45 for every tonne of cane produced, leaving mills to bear the rest of nearly 98 percent of the cost, one of the sources said, aimed at wooing politically influential growers and helping sugar companies recovering from a global glut.

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  Government Plans Incentives for Sugar Mills to Pay Cane Growers: Report

  The government is likely to give incentives to sugar mills to pay cane growers, government and trade sources said on Tuesday, as part of efforts to help sugar companies saddled with large stocks and lower prices.

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  Government May Announce Steps to Clear Cane Dues of Rs 20,000 Crore: Report

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi late yesterday held a high-level meeting to discuss concerns of cane growers and wheat farmers.

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  Government to Consider Building Sugar Stockpile

  The government will examine the feasibility of building government stocks of sugar to cut a surplus of sweetener in the market, Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan has said, a move that would prop up local prices and help money-losing mills pay dues to cane growers.

• Government Might Consider White Sugar Export Incentive

  Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Wednesday said the government might consider giving cash-strapped sugar companies an incentive to export white, or refined, sugar as long as mills agree to pay the dues they owe to millions of cane growers.

• Government to Explore Raising Sugar Import Tax: Food Minister

  India will examine raising import tax on sugar to support local prices and help mills clear dues to cane growers, Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said on Thursday.

• Sugar farmers, mills standoff to be resolved soon: industry body

  Abinash Verma, director-general of the Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA), said meetings had taken place between cane growers and mills in Uttar Pradesh, a key growing state, paving the way for a resolution of the dispute soon.

• Pay farmers or face action: UP govt tells sugar mills

  Uttar Pradesh government has directed all the sugar mills in the state to clear cane arrears of farmers or strict action would be initiated against them."By the end of the last week payment of Rs 11,580 had been done to cane growers as against dues of Rs 13,000 crores. A directive has been issued by the Cane development Minister Naseemuddin Siddiqu...