BKU- CHARUNI WRITES TO KHATTAR OVER DELAY IN FIXING CANE PRICE

KARNAL: Agitated over the delay in the announcement of the State Advised Price (SAP) for sugarcane, Bhartiya Kisan Union (Charuni) has written to chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar seeking his immediate intervention to announce the SAP. The union’s president Gurnam Singh Charuni, in a letter to Khattar, said that the crushing season 2022-23 of most of the sugar mills in the state have already started, but the government has not fixed the SAP yet. “The prices of the sugarcane crop be fixed before commencing of sugar mills,” he added. Charuni also demanded that the SAP for sugarcane be fixed at ₹ 450 per quintal from ₹ 362 of the last year, saying farmers suffered due to diseases affecting yield.