AGRICULTURE: Farmers’ overwhelming support for alternate sugar package*

In record numbers at cane farmer meetings, growers have rejected the Queensland and Federal governments’ proposed deregulation plan and finance package for the industry. Instead, they have overwhelmingly supported an alternate eight point plan to return the once vibrant industry to profitability.Meetings headed by leading identities in the industry and by Federal independent MP, Bob Katter, have reached about half the 6,500 cane farmers in Queensland and northern NSW.So far, seven farmers’ meeti…

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