Leaders of the Pakistan Sugar Mills Association (PSMA), Punjab Zone and the Pakistan Kisan Movement(PKM) have hailed government decision in the ECC meeting, saying farmers will be in a position to get payment of sugarcane supplied to sugar mills in Punjab.
An association spokesman said a delegation of the Pakistan Kissan Movement met Chairman Chaudry Zaka Ashraf the other day and discussed decisions taken by the federal government in the ECC meeting held in Islamabad on November 30 under the chairmanship of Mohammedmian Soomro. The meeting discussed implications of these decisions on stakeholders involved in agri-business of sugarcane and sugar and termed the decisions very positive.
Pakistan Kissan Movement Secretary General Hanif Gujjar said in the meeting that the farming community praised the efforts by the caretaker government in increasing the import duty on sugar from 15 to 25 percent and withdrawing the export duty on sugar to Afghanistan and extending the last date for adjustment of the working capital loans by banks to sugar mills till the end of April next year.
He said ex-mill sugar prices in local market had crashed to Rs 23 per kilogramme in Punjab and Rs 22 per kilogramme in Sindh which were insufficient even to cater to the sugarcane prices. Both organisations praised the caretaker government for increasing the quantity of sugar to be kept in buffer stock from 500,000 to 650,000 tonnes.
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