The performance of the cooperative sugar mills in Haryana has been remarkable by any standards in 2011-12. They have paid Rs. 716.47 crore to the sugarcane farmers so far.
According to an estimate, the ten sugar mills have paid the aforesaid amount for a total of 316 lakh quintals of sugarcane.
Sources claim Haryana is the state that pays the highest sugarcane rates to farmers. The latter are paid as high as an amount of Rs. 231 per quintal for the first crop. Haryana ranks third in the country in terms of paying the cost of cane per quintal, sources add.
Sources also claim the present govt. in Haryana has spiked the cane price by a whopping amount of Rs. 114 per quintal over the last seven years. This has beaten all the previous records.
Haryana is beginning special programs for the development of cane farming. It has allocated more than Rs. 33 crore for the purpose in 2012-13. The state govt is also planning to modernize and expand some of the sugar mills and establish co-generation power plants in PPP mode.