{"id":29707,"date":"2025-08-27T13:04:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T07:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=29707"},"modified":"2025-08-27T13:04:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T07:19:37","slug":"subsidy-amount-to-be-transferred-to-sugarcane-farmers-account-by-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/subsidy-amount-to-be-transferred-to-sugarcane-farmers-account-by-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Subsidy amount to be transferred to sugarcane farmers&#8217; account by Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Aug 27: The government has released a total amount of Rs 754.93 million to provide subsidy for sugarcane farmers.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Finance (MoF) has released the subsidy payment which will be transferred to the beneficiaries&#8217; account through the district-based Treasury and Financial Comptroller offices, reported the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development (MoALD).<\/p>\n<p>Although the Cabinet meeting had earlier decided to provide a subsidy of Rs 35 per quintal to sugarcane farmers, the MoF delayed the disbursement citing technical issues.<\/p>\n<p>The delay prompted the disgruntled sugarcane farmers to stage Kathmandu-centric protest programmes. Also, the government&#8217;s decision to halve the subsidy-previously Rs 70 per quintal-further fueled their decision to take to street.<\/p>\n<p>Although MoALD had proposed continuing the same amount this year as well, the Cabinet meeting decided to provide Rs 35 per quintal taking into account the country&#8217;s current economic condition and needs.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, representatives of the MoALD and Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies and protesting sugarcane farmers held a talk on Tuesday at Singha Durbar.<\/p>\n<p>Lalan Kumar Singh, Deputy Director General of Department of Agriculture, and Lal Kumar Shrestha and Maniratna Aryal, Under-Secretaries of the MoALD among others represented the government side while Shyam Babu Raya led the sugarcane farmers in the talk.<\/p>\n<p>It may be noted that Minister of Agriculture and Livestock Development Ramnath Adhikari on last Tuesday had formed a four-member team in a bid to address the demands of protesting sugarcane farmers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Aug 27: The government has released a total amount of Rs 754.93 million to provide subsidy for sugarcane farmers. The Ministry of Finance (MoF) has released the subsidy payment which will be transferred to the beneficiaries&#8217; account through the district-based Treasury and Financial Comptroller offices, reported the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development (MoALD). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-economy","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29709,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29707\/revisions\/29709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}