Sugarcane production and acreages in Bangladesh have more than halved in the last two decades as farmers find it difficult to generate a steady stream of profit from the crop, official figures showed.
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Sugarcane: now a headache for farmers
Hamidul Haq, a sugarcane grower in Basantapur village of Rangpur s Badarganj upazila, is fearing huge losses this year as the government has shut down six state-run sugar mills out of 15 just before the harvesting season.
Haq, who has been growing the crop for the last 15 years, said he had invested every penny he had to produce 340 quintals of sugarcane on his one-acre land this year.
But this year he fell into big trouble as Shyampur Sugar Mill turned out to be one of the closed mills, where Haq used to sell his produce at Tk 350 a quintal, or 100 kilograms.