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Sindh directs mills to pay quality premium to
cane growers
KARACHI (April 01 2004): Although sugar mills in
Sindh have failed to pay quality premium for
2002-03 to growers, Sindh government has issued a
fresh notification directing the mill owners to
pay quality premium for the current year, 2003-04,
also.
Mill owners term this notification as
discriminatory, saying that no other province has
issued this type of notice and it is not known why
Sindh government only is insisting on payment of
quality premium.
Sources close to the industry contend that
recovery percentage of sucrose content,
particularly in Lower Sindh, has been very low
this year due to a widespread disease of borer in
sugarcane.
In these conditions, the payment of quality
premium is unjustified.
The payment for last year, running into billions
of rupees, is still being avoided by sugar makers
in spite of the fact that the government has left
no stone unturned throughout the year compelling
the mills to make payment.
According to a spokesman of Sindh Sugarcane
Growers Association, it is surprising that mill
owners are avoiding every notification of the
government. The writ of the government must be
honoured, he added.
It is learnt that seasonal operation of sugar
mills in Sindh will not go beyond April 15 and, by
that time, the mill owners may pull down their
shutters for the next season. But during the next
season sugarcane will hardly be available for
mills to crush.
The cultivation of the crop is being avoided this
year by growers.
Courtesy Business Recorder |
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