Ahead of farmers’ Bharat Bandh, UP Chief Minister Adityanath increases sugarcane SAP by Rs 25 a quintal

Vibha Sharma
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, September 26

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Ahead of agitating farmers’ ‘Bharat Bandh’  on Monday, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath on Sunday announced an increase in the State Advisory Price of sugarcane by Rs 25 a quintal—a hike that takes the prices from Rs 325 a quintal to Rs 350 a quintal for the superiors variety and  from Rs 315 a quintal to Rs 340 a quintal for the ordinary variety.,

This will benefit 45 lakh farmers, Adityanath said addressing a ‘kisan sammelan’ ahead of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha-led Bharat Bandh on Monday.

The move is expected to impact the western UP—the centre of the farmers’ agitation against the three laws in the poll-bound state—and around 125 constituencies in the region.

There has been no death due to hunger and no ‘danga’ (riots) in UP since 2014 under the BJP rule, Adityanath said in his address.

Speaking of the various “pro-farmer” steps taken by the Narendra Modi government in the Centre and the UP government, including for sugarcane growers, Adityanath said the BJP government provided farmers long-pending arrears and restarted sugar mills closed during the regimes of the BSP and the SP governments.

Adityanath also warned farmers to “be wary of the false assurances” of the opposition parties.

“Farmers had to burn their cane in their fields in the regime of the BSP and the SP,” Adityanath claimed.

The SKM has claimed that various organisations, associations, and political parties had extended their support to the Bharat Bandh call.