Farmers serve 7-day ultimatum to Haryana government to fix sugarcane price

KARNAL: A state-level Kisan Panchayat held in Panipat on Sunday served a 7-day ultimatum to the state government to fix the State Advised Price (SAP) to Rs 450 per quintal for sugarcane crop.
The panchayat also announced to launch a statewide agitation from December 25, if the government did not accept their demand.
Hundreds of farm leaders and activists from across the state attended the panchayat.The panchayat was chaired by Bhartiya Kisan Union (Tikait) state president Rattan Mann.
Rattan Mann said that if the government did not accept farmers' demands by December 24, the farmers would gather at all the sugar mills on December 25 and block roads in-front of the sugar mills for one hour.
He said that the government is forcing the farmers to hold protests on the roads as it is deliberately delaying the announcement of the Sugarcane prices to harass farmers.
He said that even though crushing operations in all sugar mills started last month, the sugarcane growers did not get a single penny yet.
During the panchayat the BKU leaders also formed a committee of farmers to lead the agitation.