: Behind India’s sugar dominance lies a hidden water crisis in Uttar Pradesh #IndiaNEWS On a cold morning in the early winter of 2019, farmer Shekhar Chauhan reached his small sugarcane farm to start

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Behind India’s sugar dominance lies a hidden water crisis in Uttar Pradesh #IndiaNEWS
On a cold morning in the early winter of 2019, farmer Shekhar Chauhan reached his small sugarcane farm to start a regular workday, only to find it flooded. The boundary of a nearby drain had broken and water spilt into the farms in the Muzaffarnagar district of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. A significant amount of Chauhan’s crops was lost.Chauhan complained to the management of one of the eight sugar mills in the district. He said the mill was releasing water in the narrow drain. “The sugar mill officials unclogged the drain and fixed it,� Chauhan said. “But when the mill started operating the following year, it was the same story.� This time, however, Chauhan said nobody fixed the drain.His account is not an exception. In March 2020, Ram Bir, 48, also found his farm full of water. “Overnight my wheat farm was filled with water,� he said. “The water receded in about a week, but my crop did not survive. Paudhey jal gaye they hafte bhar mei [The plants were destroyed within a week].�Sugar for worldChauhan and Bir are among the scores of farmers in the Muzaffarnagar district who have been affected by the wastewater released by the Triveni Sugar Mill...Read more

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