New Delhi, Dec. 16 -- Sugarcane farmers in Uttar Pradesh (UP) are selling their produce to mills in neighbouring Haryana, attracted by the latter's higher state advised price (SAP).

Haryana currently offers one of the highest sugarcane prices in the country, prompting farmers in border villages to divert their crop to its sugar mills, according to two people familiar with the development.

State advised price is the minimum price fixed by a state government that sugar mills must pay to farmers for their sugarcane.

While Uttar Pradesh has set the SAP for sugarcane at Rs.400 per quintal for early-maturing varieties and Rs.390 per quintal for common varieties for the 2025-26 crushing season, the Haryana government has raised the SAP to Rs....