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Industries Minister Duddilla Sridhar Babu announced the enactment of a high-level committee to survey the challenges faced by sugarcane farmers and urge broad solutions.
The determination was taken during a high-level reappraisal gathering held astatine the Secretariat with sugarcane farmers, manufacture representatives and Sugarcane Development Council (CDC) chairpersons.
The Minister said the authorities has taken superior enactment of the dependable diminution successful sugarcane cultivation country successful the State implicit caller years. The committee headed by the Special Chief Secretary of the IT and Industries Department volition hole a elaborate report.
It volition undertake a comparative survey of benefits, incentives and subsidies offered to sugarcane farmers successful different States and taxable its recommendations astatine the earliest. The committee volition besides reappraisal the petition to proceed drip-irrigation subsidies for sugarcane, which officials accidental tin summation yields by 8–9 tonnes per acre.
The Minister assured that helium would convey to the Chief Minister the farmers’ request to widen the ₹500 per quintal bonus, presently fixed for good paddy, besides to sugarcane.
