Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Government has claimed that the Yogi Adityanath led BJP regime has taken series of measures during past nearly four years for the welfare and overall upliftment of the sugarcane farmers and the industry.
“The Yogi Adityanath government has enhanced sweetness of the sugarcane by increasing the daily cane crushing capacity of the of the sugar mills, fresh capacity addition for production of khandsari and ethanol and also the record payment to the farmers by the sugar mills,” said an official here on Sunday adding “the sweetness of sugarcane, which has been bitter for farmers due to mounting arrears during the BSP and SP government, has now returned’’.
Clearing the arrears of the farmers was a major challenge before the Yogi government, voted to power in March 2017. During the past three cane crushing seasons, the sugar mills have made a record payment of over Rs 1.12 lakh crore to the farmers. Along with the payment, the government focussed on modernization of old mills and establishing of new mills. In this order, capacity of 11 mills was increased and new mills with state-of-the-art capacity were set up at Pipraich in Gorakhpur, Mundera in Basti and Ramala in Baghpat. These mills were closed during the Samajwadi party and bahujan samaj party governments.
