Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh said sugarcane farmers should be encouraged to adopt intercropping to boost their income.
Uttar Pradesh state government official said, sugar mills must pay for the new crop by 9 per cent, Uttar Pradesh has raised the price of sugarcane as part of efforts to woo farmers ahead of a state assembly election early next year.
During the coming 2016-17 crushing season, the sugarcane acreage in Uttar Pradesh is estimated at over 20 lakh hectares (LH).
Uttar Pradesh is India's largest sugarcane producer and according to the preliminary sugarcane survey in UP, the acreage is likely to grow by 2%.
Co 0238 (Karan 4) is a high yielding and high sugar content variety, derived from the cross Co LK 8102 x Co 775. This variety was evolved at the Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Regional Centre, Karnal.
The farmers from Jeeyapuram, Mukkombu and Thuraiyur are upbeat. Several of them had increased the area of cultivation this year. Sugarcane farmers are getting ready for harvesting their crops as Pongal approaches and are expecting a better price this year.
The Karnataka High Court will allow farmers to sell sugarcane to factories outside the 'command area'. According to a division bench of the Karnataka High Court, a single judge order that allowed some sugarcane farmers to sell their produce to another sugar factory than the one allotted in their area.
Under the joint auspices of the Kothari Sugars and the Tamil Nadu Agriculture University’s Agricultural Engineering College at Kumulur near, an awareness programme on use of distillery effluent in sugarcane fields to step up soil health was held.
