Increase in cane price inadequate, says Bhupinder Hooda

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, September 16

Former CM and Leader of Opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda today termed the increase in the sugarcane price by the state as inadequate.

Hooda said the BJP-JJP government was fiercely marketing the increase in sugarcane price by them, which was 10 times lesser than what the Congress had done during its term.

“The increase in the MSP of all crops and the FRP of sugarcane is negligible as compared to the increasing cost of cultivation. The rate of sugarcane was increased by 165 per cent in the nine-and-a-half years of the Congress. In the seven years of the BJP, there was a total increase of 16 per cent,” he said.

Hooda said the price of petrol and diesel, cost of sugarcane cultivation, farm labour, fertiliser, seeds, pesticides, insecticides and farming equipment had increased significantly.

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