India's apex sugar cooperative, the National Federation of Cooperative Sugar Factories (NFCSF), has asked farmers to grow sugar canes with high sugar content.
State BJP minister Chandrakant Patil last week said Harshvardhan Patil will regret his decision to join the Pawar-led party.
The subsidy will be credited to bank accounts of farmers against cane price dues and are compliant with WTO norms. This will benefit millions of farmers in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Karnataka.
The production in Maharashtra is pegged higher at 11-11.5 million tonnes against 10.71 million tonnes
Industry staring at a record surplus by next year
Maharashtra, the country's largest cane and sugar producer after Uttar Pradesh, had, over the past few years, weathered adverse market dynamics brought about by a domestic and global sugar glut, mounting arrears and muted exports.