Kathmandu, 30 July: The Sugarcane farmers, whose payment is long overdue by various sugar mill owners, have urged the government for its positive intervention to ensure their outstanding due payment within 21 August this year.
A group of sugarcane farmers, organizing a press conference on Thursday, have asked the government to facilitate their payment which amounts to around Rs 150 million. Representatives from the Sugarcane Famers Struggle Committee, Sarlahi, Federation of Agricultural Workers of Nepal and sugarcane farmers rued that they were not paid as per the agreement inked among the sugar mill owners and them in the past.
People’s News Monitoring Service
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