31 December 2019, Kathmandu
Nepali Congress parliamentary party office has expressed serious concern over non-payment to sugarcane farmers for their product.
Issuing a press release on Tuesday, the parliamentary party office of NC has urged the government and other stakeholders concerned to be serious to address the problem facing the sugarcane farmers.
The farmers are not paid by the sugar mills for long. The press release issued chief whip of the party, Balkrishna Khand, said, “Although agreements were made between the sugar mill owners and farmers in the presence of government time and again, non-implementation of the agreement is worrying.”
He demanded the government to take special initiative to address the demands of the agitating sugarcane farmers
