The Chief Minister's Office of Uttar Pradesh, citing Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, on Friday, June 12, 2026, outlined a series of farm-sector measures undertaken since 2017, ranging from a debt waiver and enhanced minimum support prices to cane-payment clearances and free electricity for tubewell operators across the state.

Context

The post states that the government's first major decision in 2017 was a farm loan waiver, after which farmers began receiving an MSP of डेढ़ गुना लागत (one-and-a-half times the cost of production) for their crops. The MSP revision aligns with the central government's adoption of the Swaminathan Commission recommendation, which was implemented from the 2018-19 crop season for major crops. These two early moves — debt relief and better price support — are presented as the foundation of the state's agrarian policy over the past nine years.

Policy Backdrop

Uttar Pradesh is India's largest sugarcane-producing state, and timely cane-price payments have long been a politically sensitive issue in its western and eastern belts. The post claims that sugarcane farmers in the state have received cane-price payments of more than ₹3 lakh 22 thousand crore over the past nine years. Separately, the post notes that 12 crore farmers nationally and 3 crore farmers in Uttar Pradesh are enrolled in the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme, the central direct-benefit-transfer programme that provides ₹6,000 annually to eligible landholding farm families. The convergence of state-level interventions with national schemes such as PM-KISAN reflects a broader pattern in which the state has tried to layer multiple support channels for the same beneficiary base.

Stakeholders and Impact

Three distinct groups are highlighted in the post. Sugarcane farmers, who depend on state-directed cane prices and mill payments, are the largest cohort by payment volume. PM-KISAN enrollees — 3 crore in UP alone — represent a wide cross-section of small and marginal landholders. The third group consists of 15 lakh farmers who operate private tubewells and have been provided free electricity for irrigation, directly reducing input costs for those relying on groundwater. Together, these measures address three distinct pressure points in farm economics: credit burden, price realisation, and input costs.

What's Next

Attention will now turn to the state's upcoming budget presentations and whether the free-power scheme will be extended to a larger pool of irrigation users. Parliamentary discussions on legally guaranteeing the MSP floor price remain a live national debate, and any movement there would have direct implications for the framework CM Yogi has described. Progress on clearing any residual sugarcane arrears from mills will also be a key indicator of whether the payment momentum cited in the post is sustained.