{"id":28793,"date":"2018-10-24T14:52:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28793"},"modified":"2018-10-24T14:52:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:22:41","slug":"sweet-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sweet-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/editorial\/sweet-nothing\/article24175650.ece\">Sweet nothing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><u>Article<\/u><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The Cabinet committee on Economic Affairs approved a Rs 7,000 package for the sugar sector recently.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><u>Important Analysis<\/u><\/p>\n<p>2.Sugar mills dues to farmers stand Rs 22,000 crore.<\/p>\n<p><u>4.Steps taken by the government:<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recently, the centre proposed a special cess under the GST to help alleviate distress among sugarcane farmers.<\/li>\n<li>Assured minimum pricing<\/li>\n<li>Special incentives for increasing malassess and ethanol production.<\/li>\n<li>Govt will procure sugar from mills at a fixed minimum price.<\/li>\n<li>Financial assistance to farmers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>5.Benefits of bailout package:<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Help famers to come out of debt.<\/li>\n<li>Dissipate their immediate liquidity problems to an extent.<\/li>\n<li>According to Rating agency Crisil, it will help mitigating about 40% of the outstanding areas to sugarcane farmers.<\/li>\n<li>This could help to use excess sugar for the manufacturing of alcohol or ethanol.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>6.Problems associated with the sector:<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Structural problems.<\/li>\n<li>Sticks to old-style pricing.<\/li>\n<li>Stock holding intermediaries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"7\">\n<li><u> Solutions:<\/u><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Ensure some linkage between the price paid for sugarcane and the end-product it is used for.<\/li>\n<li>Encouraging the feedback from market prices to inform farmer\u2019s future cropping decisions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweet nothing Article The Cabinet committee on Economic Affairs approved a Rs 7,000 package for the sugar sector recently. Important Analysis 2.Sugar mills dues to farmers stand Rs 22,000 crore. 4.Steps taken by the government: Recently, the centre proposed a special cess under the GST to help alleviate distress among sugarcane farmers. Assured minimum pricing&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sweet-nothing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sweet nothing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704734088},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}