Summary:
In fact, they promised to get their dues paid within 14 days of delivery of the produce to the mill. Even then, against the total dues of Rs 35,463 crore in 2017-18, we have paid Rs 35,160 crore. We will certainly corner BJP which as opposition had always criticized the incumbent governments for any delay in cane dues to farmers. Major cane producing districts - such as Meerut, Muzaffarnagar, Bijnor, Baghpat and Shamli - will go to the polls on April 11.The mills owe a whopping Rs 8,696 crore to the state’s farmers. And Uttar Pradesh’s sugar bowl is no different.As this crucial sugar belt readies for first phase of Lok Sabha polls, rising cane dues that mills owe to farmers is set to provide sufficient political ammunition to the opposition..