Hon’ble Devi Prasad Singh, J.—This Court as well as Hon’ble Supreme Court has been battle ground since decades dealing with fixation of cane price contested by mill owners and cane growers at the beginning of almost every crushing season. Sugar becomes more sour every year because of rise of its price for the citizen on the one hand and because of alleged unreasonable price of cane for the farmers on the other. Pull and push continues whenever question arises with regard to fixation of cane price as well as sugar. However, we are concerned with the fixation of cane price only.

In the State of U.P., it has been noticed that sometimes farmers set ablaze their own standing crop because of allegedly lower cane price on the one hand and mill owners threat to close their mill being not satisfied with cane price fixed by the Government. There appears to be no uniform principle adopted by the Government with regard to fixation of cane price keeping in view the consumer price index, inflation, cost of living as well as production cost of the cane. Conflict between cane price fixed by the State Government and the Central Government may be noticed at the beginning of every season resu