Chandigarh: In the midst of continuing protest by sugar cane farmers who demanded the immediate release of the RS 160 Crore who awaited payment and the increase in prices guaranteed to the country (SAP) to Rs 400 per quintal, the Head of the captain Amarinder Singh will hold with them on Tuesday afternoon In Punjab Bhawan, Chandigarh.
The President of the Punjab Congress Navjot Singh Sidhu also supports the sugar cane farmers protest on Monday.
“The problem of sugar cane farmers needs to be immediately resolved peacefully …
strange that despite higher planting costs in Punjab, the price guaranteed country is too low compared to Haryana / UP / Uttarakhand.
As a torchbearer of agriculture, SAP Punjab must be better!” Tweeted Sidhu .
State sugar farmers held a meeting on Sunday with Sukhjinder Cooperation Minister Singh Randhawa in Chandigarh and again on Monday afternoon with state government officials in Jalandhar.
The Punjab Government on August 19, the revision of sugar cane is equal to Rs 15 per quintal – RS 325 per quintal for initial varieties, RS 315 per quintal for intermediate variations and RS 310 per quintal for mature varieties.
The opposition party, including the Shiromani Party Akali Dal and Aam Aadmi, also seeks increased sap.
Also, there are nine cooperative and seven personal sugar factories that have to pay nearly 160 crore rs to sugar cane farmers for the last cane crushing season.
Cane farmers also demand that they also be entitled to interest in payments delayed by sugar mills.
In accordance with the order of sugar cane, 1966, “where the sugar producer or its agent failed to make a payment for sugar cane purchased within 14 days from the date of delivery, he would pay an interest of 15 percent per year for a period of delay like that outside 14 days.” When sugar cane farmers continue to block the highway and national trains in Jalandhar, the Supreme Court, hearing the petition about the same problem related to Uttar Pradesh on Monday, commenting that farmers have the right to protest but the road cannot be blocked.
The APEX court also gives time to the central government to find solutions as a solution located in the hands of the central government and the countries concerned.