FAISALABAD: Sugarcane growers have threatened going on hunger strike if payments for their produce were not made at the earliest at the government-fixed price.
Kissan Board's Divisional President Ali Ahmed Goraya and Farmer-Labour Ittehad President Muhammad Subhan Gill, in their statements issued here on Tuesday, said that the Punjab government had fixed Rs180 per 40-kg sugarcane purchase price, but sugar mills in Faisalabad division were not paying that rate to farmers. They said that many sugar mills were delaying the payments by using different tactics.
They claimed that many sugar mills had issued purchase receipts to sugarcane growers at the rate of Rs180 per 40-kg, but now they were forcing them to receive the payment at Rs140-150 per 40-kg rate.
They said that most mills had closed crushing and stopped payments to farmers, which was very disappointing for growers.
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