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Chandigarh: Sugarcane growers in Haryana will not be affected by Centre’s decision to set a nation-wide base price for sugarcane as the state government has already announced the highest price of sugarcane, chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has said.
The farmers in Haryana were already being paid the highest price of Rs 185 per quintal for the year 2009-10, the chief minister said. The farmers in Haryana were already being paid the highest price of Rs 185 per quintal for the year 2009-10, Hooda said .
In addition, they would get a bonus of Rs 25 per quintal for supplying sugarcane to the cooperative sugarmills, he said. For the next year, that is 2010-11, the state government had already announced a price of Rs 210 per quintal, he added.
Through an ordinance last month, the Centre has replacedthe earlier system of fixing Statutory Minimum Price (SMP) by Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) of Rs 129.84 a quintal for sugarcane.
If any state chooses to give a higher price than FRP, the burden has to be borne by it unlike in the past when mills were mandated to pay the same.
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