Around this time every year, the height of the sugar season, Katar Singh comes here from Baghpat in western Uttar Pradesh. Singh says farmers here are paid about Rs 2,500 a tonne for their standing crop, approximately Rs 350 a tonne for harvesting and another Rs 200 for transportation. In total, he says, a farmer realises over Rs 3,000 for a tonne of sugarcane from his farm. Fellow farmer Bhikhu Bhai Patel says sugar mills pay even more, offering upward of Rs 3,500 per tonne of sugarcane procured last year. We have to bother about ourselves.”A woman in her late 30s, in Jalalpore Assembly segment of Navsari, is as angry at the BJP government, including the Centre.

Source: Indian Express December 04, 2017 23:15 UTC