Growers say mills gain if Sindh skips cane season notices
The Sindh Abadgar Board asked Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah to restart official notices that set the crushing start date and sugarcane purchase price for growers.
Sindh Abadgar Board wrote to CM Syed Murad Ali Shah seeking official notices for the crushing season start and cane buying price.
SAB President Mahmood Nawaz Shah said the province stopped issuing those notices from 2025, for the first time in many decades.
Without a notified season or price, he said growers are left at the mercy of sugar mills under the Sugar Factories Control Act, 1950 framework.
Mills once began crushing in October; last year, without a notice, they started in December.
Many small growers have shifted harvested sugarcane land to wheat, SAB said.