date:Mar 04, 2019
closing the crushing season early because of which farmers are stuck with unsold stocks of cane, farm leader Raju Shetti of the Swambhimani Shetkari Sanghatana said recently.
Shetti agreed to a major demand by the mills that farmers take part of their payments in stock since the co-operatives which control the sector in Maharashtra claimed they did not have the funds to pay. On Thursday, the Union Cabinet unveiled a Rs 10,540 cr package for sugar mills to ensure that had enough funds to pay the