A delay in the payment of dues by the sugar factory has begun fuelling anger among the sugarcane farmers in Ganjam district of Orissa.
Farmers are especially irked by the fact that even when the cooperative sugar factory has completed its crushing and processing operations last month, it has not shown any willingness to pay their dues.
Farmers are worried if they do not get their amount on time, they would fail to start farming crops afresh.
Sources close to the sugar factory, however, maintain part of dues has already been paid and the remaining dues would be paid as soon as the sugar unit gets the bank loans and the amount due to it from the Orissa Sate Beverage Corporation for liquor supplied to the corporation.