HYDERABAD, Oct 24: The Sindh Farmers’ Association (SFA) has advised sugarcane growers to start harvesting their crop immediately after Eid as sugar mills have agreed to start the crushing season in the first week of November.

In a statement issued here on Monday, the president of the association, Mr Ghulam Nabi Morai, and general secretary Aslam Baloch said that at a meeting held between the representatives of the federal government and the Pakistan Sugar Mills Association (PSMA), it has been mutually agreed that sugar mills of the Sindh province will start the crushing season in the first week of November. They, however, said that the minimum price of sugarcane has been fixed at Rs67 per 40kg.