Date:04/11/2009 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/04/stories/2009110455510700.htm

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Hooda announces record cane price for farmers

Special Correspondent

CHANDIGARH: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Tuesday announced to give the country’s highest ever price of sugarcane to the farmers in Haryana for 2009-10.

Presiding over a meeting of the Sugarcane Control Board here, he said that the farmers will be given Rs. 185 per quintal for early varieties, Rs. 180 for mid varieties and Rs. 175 per quintal for late maturing varieties.He also announced that the cane price for the year 2010-11 would be Rs. 210, Rs. 205 and Rs. 200 per quintal for early, mid and late varieties respectively.

Mr. Hooda said that the decision to fix price for the crushing season 2010-11 had been taken in advance to encourage the farmers to grow more sugarcane.

He said that the State Government had always safeguarded the interests of the farming community and they had been given remunerative price for their produce.