“Eknat” supports farmers to cut fresh sugarcane.

Eknat" encourages farmers to cut fresh sugarcane and instruct them to find ways to compensate for the cost of sugarcane farmers who cut fresh sugarcane and send it to factories. Mr. Ekkanat Promphan Minister of Industry Revealed after representatives of 4 sugarcane farmer organizations, including the Northeast Sugarcane Farmers Institute. Sugarcane Farmers Federation of Thailand The Sugarcane Farmers Association of Thailand and the Sugarcane Farmers Federation of Thailand. He said that he had concerns about the management of the sugarcane and sugar industry and would like to lay out two guidelines as follows: 1. Sugar production efficiency. Sugarcane farmers must produce and deliver good quality fresh sugarcane to sugar mills, and sugar mills must improve their efficiency to meet the standards in order to generate the maximum income for the sugarcane and sugar industry system. As a result, income and sugarcane prices have also decreased. If the government is required to subsidize sugarcane prices, it will v iolate global trade rules. 2. Subsidies to reduce the cost of cutting high-quality fresh sugarcane so that sugarcane farmers have time to adapt and adjust the sugarcane planting area to suit the use of agricultural machinery, coupled with the drought problem, which may result in a decrease in sugarcane prices this year from the previous year. Reduce the impact on the public and nearby communities. "I understand the plight of sugarcane farmers, the use of sugarcane cutting trucks or the hiring of workers to cut fresh sugarcane all have production costs, we must turn around to reduce production costs for sugarcane farmers who cut good quality fresh sugarcane, and have instructed the Office of the Sugarcane and Sugar Board (Sugarcane) to discuss with sugar mills to determine guidelines and methods to increase the production efficiency of the factories before the opening of the 2024/2025 production season in order to generate more income in the sugarcane and sugar industry system, and to find ways to compensate for the costs for sugarcane farmers who cut fresh sugarcane to send to the factory, and the other part to use the income generated from the sale of sugarcane leaves to compensate." The Minister of Industry said. Source: Thai News Agency