The price of no reform: UP govt has let politics take over sugar pricing

The sugar crisis in Uttar Pradesh is a clear product of a politics of division and brinkmanship that has been allowed to affect basic economic management. On Wednesday, in an effort to move beyond an impasse, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav announced that the state-advised price for sugarcane, at which sugar mills buy sugarcane from farmers, would be kept at the previous year's level of Rs 280 per quintal.

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