Indian Sugar Mills Association's Abinash Verma fears that the standoff between the UP government and the sugar industry may affect the mills' functioning in the crushing season. Meanwhile, top officials from the industry have also been arrested allegedly without proper reasons.
The sugar mills of Uttarakhand have produced 32.32 lakh quintals of sugar during the crushing season of 2011-12 and Rs 580.40 crore has already been paid by them to sugarcane growers.
All the 10 cooperative sugar mills in Haryana have produced 18.66 lakh quintal of sugar by crushing 225.53 lakh quintal of sugarcane till date.