date:Sep 20, 2018
cond official said.
The government is also planning to raise the price it pays directly to cane growers to 138 rupees a tonne in the 2018/19 season starting from Oct 1, up from 55 rupees this season, government sources said.
These steps are aimed at helping sugar companies clear cane arrears to farmers, said the first official.
In March, India had asked mills to export 2 million tonnes of sugar and fixed a mandatory export quota for each mill, but mills have so far managed to export around 50