Lucknow, Oct. 30 -- Ahead of the upcoming crushing season, the Yogi Adityanath government has announced a hike in the sugarcane price, known as the State Advisory Price (SAP), bringing significant relief to farmers across Uttar Pradesh.

"The state government has increased the sugarcane price by Rs.30 per quintal for the 2025-26 crushing season. With this revision, the price of the early variety of sugarcane has been fixed at Rs.400 per quintal, while the price of the common variety will now be Rs.390 per quintal," sugarcane development minister Laxmi Narain Chaudhary said on Wednesday.

The increase in sugarcane prices will result in an additional payment of around Rs.3,000 crore to the state's 46 lakh farmers who supply cane to sugar mi...