The solution to the sugar mess is simple: The Centre and states should stop fixing cane prices, besides “reserving” areas for mills. The solution to the sugar mess is simple: The Centre and states should stop fixing cane prices, besides “reserving” areas for mills. With cane payment dues to farmers by sugar mills touching Rs 20,000 crore, and hardly a year to go for the general election, the Narendra Modi government is understandably in a bind. These moves don’t address the root of the problem, which has to do with the political fixation of cane prices. The solution to the sugar mess is simple: The Centre and states should stop fixing cane prices, besides “reserving” areas for mills.

Source: Indian Express May 06, 2018 18:33 UTC