Decontrol sugar now

On October 25, the Centre, perhaps with an eye on Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh (UP) early next year, announced hikes in its support prices of rabi crops, from almost 15 per cent for wheat to over 35 per cent for mustard. The coming week could see the Chief Minister of India's largest State, Ms Mayawati, doing something similar to woo its 2.5 million-odd sugarcane growers. Sugar mills in UP and Maharashtra — the country's two main producers — have just commenced crushing operations for the 2011-12 season (October-September). 

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