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Sugarcane payments to UP farmers top Rs 1 trn during Adityanath's term

Of the total 119 mills in UP, 94 units are owned by the private sector

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In the 2019-20 crushing season, crushing of 111.8 MT of cane and sugar production of 12.6 MT were registered, the highest ever in UP.

Virendra Singh Rawat Lucknow

2 min read Last Updated : Aug 18 2020 | 5:57 PM IST

The sugarcane payments to farmers by the private and public sector sugar mills in Uttar Pradesh during the three and half years of the current Adityanath government have topped Rs 1 trillion.

UP cane and sugar commissioner Sanjay R Bhoosreddy said the cane payments totalled more than Rs 1.03 trillion under the present dispensation. This also included cane outstandings on the mills for the previous crushing seasons. Adityanath had become the chief minister of UP on March 19, 2017.

In the last three years, the state of UP clocked record levels of more than 326 million tonnes (MT) of sugarcane crushing and

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