{"id":29816,"date":"2018-10-26T12:36:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T07:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29816"},"modified":"2018-10-26T12:36:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T07:06:34","slug":"threefold-solution-for-sugar-payments-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/threefold-solution-for-sugar-payments-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Threefold solution for sugar payments crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/other-states\/threefold-solution-for-sugar-payments-crisis\/article23651308.ece\"><b>Threefold solution for sugar payments crisis<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Group of Ministers has suggested a three-fold solution to the sugar payment crisis<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Background of the Crisis:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following higher sugarcane production and crash in prices dues to sugarcane farmers from mills have piled up<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Payment to sugarcane farmers is considered \u2018due\u2019 when it is delayed by more than 14 days after supplying raw cane to a mill<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As of March 2018, sugar mills had pending dues worth Rs.13, 899 crore <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Indian Sugar Mills Association, the due has presently crossed Rs. 20,000 crore<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What suggestions have been put forward?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sugar cess<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Production subsidy for cane farmers<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reduction of the Goods and Services Tax on ethanol from 18% to 5%<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Threefold solution for sugar payments crisis Context: A Group of Ministers has suggested a three-fold solution to the sugar payment crisis Background of the Crisis: Following higher sugarcane production and crash in prices dues to sugarcane farmers from mills have piled up Payment to sugarcane farmers is considered \u2018due\u2019 when it is delayed by more&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/threefold-solution-for-sugar-payments-crisis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Threefold solution for sugar payments crisis<\/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-29816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704842918},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29816","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=29816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}