Unhappy with lower yield, Western UP sugarcane farmers may shift to maize partly
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“Demand for maize will remain as ethanol makers are not able to procure the grain even when they are ready to pay ₹2,300/quintal and I have decided to shift a portion of my sugarcane field to maize next year,” says Jitender Hooda, a farmer from Shamli district of Uttar Pradesh. Many farmers in western Uttar Pradesh complain that the yield of sugarcane this year has dropped by 10-13 per cent and they perceive the popular variety CO-0238 to be responsible for this drop.
