UP millers threaten to shut shop unless cane prices cut drastically

While the Uttar Pradesh government has asked district magistrates to ensure sugar mills start crushing sugarcane soon — November 25 for mills in western UP and November 30 for the rest of the state — representatives of sugar mills accounting for over 85% of UP’s sugar capacity met the cane commissioner to say that unless the government announced a very sharp cut in cane prices, they would have no option but to shut shop.

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