The tradition of farmers suffering due to the government's annual delay in determining the support price for sugarcane has been repeated this year as well.
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Farmers in Parsa-Bara have been hit hard by the federal government's delay in fixing the support price for sugarcane. Prithvi Sah, secretary of the Sugarcane Farmers' Rights Struggle Committee, Parsa, said that they were hit hard by the government's delay in fixing the support price even though the farmers' sugarcane crop was ready and ready to harvest.
He said that most farmers are still waiting for the federal government to fix the support price for sugarcane. He said that if the current government does not work in the interest of farmers like the previous government, the farmers will not be able to feel the change.
Sah alleges that the government has been delaying the fixing of the support price for sugarcane every year, and the tradition of farmers being harmed has been repeated this year as well. ‘The trend of farmers having to seek help from the government to fix the price of their sugarcane crop every year must end now,’ he said, ‘Why can’t the government fix the price before our sugarcane crop is ready? When such a trend is repeated every year, farmers who sweat in the fields in the hope of a cash crop are getting frustrated and are becoming increasingly disillusioned with sugarcane farming.’ He said that sugarcane was cultivated on 3,300 bighas in Parsa and 7,400 bighas in Bara this year.
Association President Sahroom Rauch Gaddi says that the government has been delaying the sugarcane support price every year and is making a lot of money. Sugar mills produce five types of valuable products from the sugarcane produced by farmers, including sugar, spirit, molasses, biocompost fertilizer and bagasse, and earn more and more profits. However, farmers have been cheated for years by setting a low price in collusion with industrialists without setting a price even at the forest market rate.
Although sugarcane is considered a cash crop under the national crop, he complained that the situation of farmers having to endure hardship for 10/10 months for payment for selling their own crops is repeated every year. He said that the government should make arrangements to provide sugarcane payment to farmers from the industry within at least 7 days.
Farmers from Parsa and Bara have been selling sugarcane to Reliance Sugar Mill in Kalaiya, Bara, and Baba Baijunath Sugars and Chemical Industries Pvt. Ltd. in Katahariya, Rautahat.
The private sector sugar industry has been causing trouble to farmers for years, but the government has kept the country's oldest government sugar mill, Birgunj Sugar Factory, closed for two decades, says Prakash Khanal, a leading farmer from Parsa. He said that if this factory is operational, the good days of farmers from Parsa to Sarlahi will return.
