If mills shut down, owners will pay for next season’s cane crop: UP cane commissioner

Meerut | Sunday | 15th July, 2018

Summary:

If mill owners do not comply with the order, recovery of dues for farmers’ standing crop will be made from the mill owners. A copy of the notice was sent to district magistrate of Bijnor Atal Rai and district cane officer Yashpal Singh. These mills are to be run by mill owners. Amroha, Saharanpur and Bulandshahr mills were shut down earlier. Since then, there has been uncertainty and panic among the farmers.Ponty Chadha Group purchased five sugar mills, one each at Bijnor, Chandpur, Amroha, Bulandshahr and Saharanpur from the state government in 2010 when Mayawati was chief minister..