Bijnor: A total of 20 sugar factories, all in the private sector, still owe more than 1,600 crore rs in contributions from the previous destroyer season to farmers in 50 assembly constituents at Uttar Pradesh.
Feeling how this can affect BJP in assembly elections, only a few more weeks, up cm Yogi Aditentalath has directed officials to recover contributions immediately liquidating “other assets of this factory”.
But it is easier to say than done, given the complicated process involved.
Most of these factories are based in the West, a state of the state, which includes Lakhimpur Kheri, Bijnor, Muzaffarnagar, Shamli, Pilibhit, Saharapur, Baghpat, Meerut, Hapur and Bulandshahr, among other districts.
Here, sugar remains a political axle.
According to a Stick Department official, there were 119 sugar factories at Uttar Pradesh where around 45 sugar cane planter was supplying their products.
On average, at least 40,000 farmers are associated with each factory.
Mills defaulter is owned by four groups.
They not only owe total 1,600 crore from the destroyer season last year to plant farms in their respective regions, but have not paid a penny for the current season, he said.
Speaking with Toi, the Gopi Chaudhary farmer from the Jhalu Bijnor area, which is associated with a factory is in a volume, “My family is fully dependent on sugar cane.
The factory has failed to pay contributions last year.
In such situations, how can we stand with the party The leadership? “The opposition parties are ready to ensure the Sombre mood among these sugar cane farmers, many of them participate in the battle to force the center to revoke three agricultural laws.
RLD Praveen Deshwal leader said, “These farmers will provide the right answer in the upcoming polls.” However, the Minister of Cabinet of State and Senior Leader BJP Bhupendra Singh said, “Only the BJP government ensures the payment of sugar cane on time and launches several schemes to get farmer income.”