Fix sugarcane price at Tk 150 a maund

Sugarcane producers under the Pabna Sugar Mills zone have urged the government to fix its price at Tk 150 in view of the increased production of the raw material of sugar.

They made the demand at a farmers' meeting organised by Bangladesh Sugarcane Farmers Association on the premises of Pabna Sugar Mills on Friday afternoon.

They also urged the government to allot at least 10 kg of sugar as festival bonus to each grower every year.

The present government rate of Tk 110 per maund is too scanty considering the production cost of sugarcane, farmers said at the meeting.

Sugarcane farmers Abdus Sattar, Ansar Ali Dilu, Nazrul Islam, Abu Sayed, Selim Bishwas and Ronju Pramanik spoke on the occasion.

Addressing the programme as chief guest, AKM Delwar Hossain, chairman of Bangladesh Sugar and Food Industries Corporation, said the demand of the sugarcane farmers would be placed to the ministry concerned.

Md Habibur Rahman, BSFIC director, Tofazzal Hossain Chowdhury, managing director of Pabna Sugar Mills, and engineer Mahabubur Rahman spoke at the meeting presided over by Shajahan Ali Badsha, secretary of the farmers' association.