Sheri of Belagavi, has demanded the State government to announce State Advisory Price (SAP) for sugarcane for 2016-17. Addressing presspersons here on Monday, he said the State government had announced SAP for the sugarcane crushing season 2013-14, but failed to announce for the subsequent years, leading to exploitation of the growers by the sugar mills. Quoting a Supreme Court judgement, he said that in the event of the government failing to announce SAP for any given year(s), the SAP announced for the preceding year shall prevail till the government announced revised SAP. While the government was willing to honour this apex court’s judgement, the various farmers organisations were unaware of it, he said. Yet, the order was not being honoured by the mills and the State government was also silent on the issue.

Source: The Hindu October 24, 2016 09:56 UTC