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Sugarcane growers demand
timely payments
LAHORE-Punjab Minister for Agriculture, Khurshid Zaman Qureshi
has stated that the unauthorised and less-weighing
scales will be impounded. In order to ensure timely
payments to the sugarcane growers, sugar millers will be asked
to clear their dues on cash or cheque instead of CPR. He was
talking to a delegation of sugarcane growers hailing from
different districts which called on him, here Friday. Punjab
Ministers, Tariq Hameed and Malik Muhamamd Aslam Khan,
Secretary Food, Director Food and other concerned officers
were also present at the occasion. The provincial minister
assured the delegation that the government will have a
dialogue with sugar mills` owners to devise a comprehensive
strategy for crushing season which would
help resolve the farmers` problems. The unauthorised scales or
other scales involved in less-weighing of sugarcane will
not be impounded but also be fined, he added.
He said that the district Nazims are fully empowered to take
action against any malpractice. Furthermore the teams
comprising the millers, elected representatives and
farmers will be constituted.
He urged upon the growers to grow variety with much producing
sugar so that they could get substantial share of their
produce.
The Minister stressed for using modern trollies for the
transportation of sugarcane on which weight of sugarcane could
be divided so as to avoid dilapidation of roads. The
delegation of the farmers during meeting with the Minister
demanded that cess fund be utilized on the development of the
area where this fund is collected. They further made demand
that getting of permit during crushing season be ensured.
Private scales (kanda) be impounded. The payments be made
within 15 days of sugarcane supply on cash or cheque instead
of CPR.
November 21, 2001
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