Kharif Msp And Sugarcane Frp
Govt hikes sugarcane FRP by 4.41% to Rs 355 per quintal for 2025-26 season
The government on Wednesday decided to increase the Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) of sugarcane by 4.41 per cent to Rs 355 per quintal for the upcoming 2025-26 season beginning October. A decision in this regard was taken in the meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi keeping in the interest of sugarcane farmers. For the current 2024-25 season, the FRP of sugarcane has been fixed at Rs 340 per quintal. FRP is the minimum price mandated by the Government of India that sugar mills are legally obligated to pay sugarcane farmers for their produce. Briefing media after the CCEA meeting, I&B Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the FRP of Rs 355 per quintal has been approved for a basic recovery rate of 10.25 per cent. The government has also decided that there will not be any deduction in the case of sugar mills where recovery is below 9.5 per cent. Such farmers will get Rs 329.05 per cent for sugarcane in the ensuing 2025-26 ...
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Centre, NITI Aayog working on devising long-term solution for sugar sector
The solution to the sugar Industry problem lies in any or a combo of a price stabilisation fund, the Gujarat model of payment of cane dues and increased focus on ethanol blending
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Centre to announce kharif MSP next week, new sugarcane FRP soon
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said that the much-awaited Minimum Support Price (MSP) of kharif crops for 2018-19 season which would be 50 per cent more than cost would be announced next week.Addressing a group of sugarcane farmers in his residence, Modi also said that in the next two weeks, the Centre would also announce the Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) for sugarcane for the sugar season of 2018-19. This FRP will not only be higher than the FRP of 2017-18 season, but will also incentivize those farmers whose recovery from sugarcane will be higher than 9.5 per cent. Sugar season starts from October onwards.For the 2017-18 season, the Centre had fixed a sugarcane FRP of Rs 255 a quintal which was Rs 25 more than the previous year's FRP.Meanwhile, Modi also apprised the over 140-odd sugarcane farmers who had come from Uttar Pradesh, the country's biggest sugarcane producing state along with Maharashtra, Karnataka, Uttarakhand and Punjab about the various steps that the ...
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