Bhubaneswar: The managing committee of Aska Cooperative Sugar Industries Ltd (ACSIL) in Odisha has increased sugarcane price by Rs 420 to Rs 3,500 per tonne this year, officials said.
The factory will also bear the transportation charge of sugarcane beyond the 10-km distance this time, ACSIL managing director Sushant Kumar Panda said Saturday.
Earlier, the Ganjam district sugarcane growers association had demanded that the cane price be fixed at Rs 4,500 per tonne and threatened not to supply sugarcane if the factory authorities did not consider their demand.
The factory authorities decided to commence its crushing from January 17 and targeted to crush over 50,000 metric tonne this year.
Last year, the factory had crushed 49,255 tonnes of sugarcane, Panda said.
