Saharanpur farmer is UP’s surgarcane production champ

BIJNOR/PILIBHIT: Subhash Chandra Singh, a farmer from Saharanpur district’s Tondarpur cane zone, has bagged the first prize in state cane yield competition for the 2019-20 crushing season in the ratoon crop category. The results were announced by cane commissioner Sanjay R Bhoosreddy on Thursday evening.
The average sugarcane yield in the state is 811 quintals per hectare.
Among a total of 107 applicants from the 44 cane producing districts, Singh with a net production of 2,329 quintals per hectare, won the competition in the ratoon crop category.
Neighbouring Shamli district's Satyaprakash Tiwari was a distant second at 1,851 quintals per hectare in the same category.
Ranveer Singh of Ghaziabad got third position with a yield of 1,388 quintals per hectare.
In the sugarcane plant production category, Satyaprakash from Gonda district bagged the first prize with a yield of 2,121 quintals per hectare. Besides, two Bijnor-based cane growers -- Jagat Singh of Chandpur and Brahampal Singh of Dhampur -- bagged second and third positions respectively, growing 2,069 and 1,902 quintals per hectare in the cane plant production category.
Bhoosreddy said, “For ensuring complete transparency and fairness in selection of winners, the state sugarcane administration had deputed designated field officers who had managed the harvesting of sugarcane attributed to each contestant in their presence."
The contest is organized every year and is aimed at motivating farmers to increase the yield per hectare.
The department could not find any suitable winner for the general plant variety category.
The winners would be awarded the cash prize of Rs 10,000, Rs 7,000 and Rs 5,000 along with certificates. The awards would be presented by chief minister Yogi Adityanath in Lucknow, Bhoosreddy said.