Since 2017, more than Rs 2 lakh crore has been paid through direct benefit transfer to sugarcane farmers: UP CM Adityanath
Yogi Adityanath, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, said on Saturday that direct benefit transfer (DBT) payments of Rs 2,13,400 crore had been made to sugarcane farmers in the state during the last five years.
At the certificate presentation event for the winners of the State Sugarcane Production Competitions, the CM said, “Sugarcane prices worth Rs 2,13,400 crore have been paid to farmers through DBT between 2017 and 2023.”
According to Adityanath, payments to sugarcane farmers used to take years to complete under the previous administration but now they are completed in a week.
Prior to six years, sugarcane farmers in the state often protested because they had trouble getting receipts due to inconsistencies in the weighing of their crop and theft of their receipts.
In addition, the farmers had experienced trouble as a result of the premature shutdown of sugar mills. The CM was cited as saying in an official statement, “Payment of sugarcane price to the farmers was lingering for years, but it is now being done within a week.
Speaking of the current state of affairs, the CM said that mission-mode actions were done to repay the outstanding debts for sugarcane from 2010 to 2017, when the BJP administration assumed power.
In order to control the ongoing payments to farmers on time, the owners of sugar mills have asked authorization to create ethanol, he added.
In praise of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s many measures for farmers, he said that with the PM’s blessing, sugar mills in the state are now also generating ethanol.
This has led to Uttar Pradesh being the top state in the nation for producing sugar, ethanol, and sugarcane, as well as for putting up “khandsari” plants, he said.
Additionally, the chief minister officially opened online 25 cooperative sugarcane and sugar mill committees’ freshly built facilities.
Adityanath said during the broadcast that some farmers are producing 2,640 quintals of sugarcane per acre, which is an inconceivable feat.
In addition, the state has 3,171 cooperative women’s self-help organizations, which employ more than 59,000 women and contribute to bolster the state’s economy by working with 60 lakh sugarcane growers.
The chief minister expressed optimism that all 118 of the state’s sugar mills will implement the practice of paying farmers the price of their sugarcane within 10 days.
Speaking about the accomplishments of the Sugarcane Department, he said that two new sugar mills as well as four previously shut down sugar mills had been reactivated.
The’messiah’ of farmers was Chaudhary Charan Singh. In the 1980s, he had discussed reviving the Chhaprauli sugar plant, but succeeding administrations changed without giving the farmers any consideration. Initiated by our administration, a new sugar mill would be built in Chhaprauli, the speaker said.
