Cane cultivators pin their hopes on district administration to get pending payment from sugar mill
The Hindu
Sugarcane cultivators attached to a defunct private sugar mill in Thanjavur district have pinned their hopes on the district administration to get pending payment of around ₹99 crore from the mill.The
Sugarcane cultivators attached to a defunct private sugar mill in Thanjavur district have pinned their hopes on the district administration to get pending payment of around ₹99 crore from the mill.
The private sugar mill has failed to distribute ₹6.53 crore to 1,294 farmers towards supply of cane during the crushing season in 2016-17 and ₹28.64 crore for the next season before it moved a solvency petition in 2019. As cane price arrears are treated as arrears of land revenue under the Essential Commodities Act, steps initiated by the Thanjavur district administration ensured recovery of ₹4.44 crore and remitted to the accounts of the cane suppliers.