The cultivation of sugarcane and cotton, meanwhile, has inevitably been heavily influenced by
the government's policy of making farmers and trades sell their produces at low prices so as to meet
the goals of the state-owned processing enterprises
In summary, in recent years, rice, oil seed crops, industrial crops, onions and maize have been
the crops on which the present government has placed a strong priority with the sustenance of the
regime in mind. In this regard, the avoidance of social unrest and the maintenance of the state
enterprises have been two key imperative. Farmers, traders and processors dealing with the crops
are daily struggling to find a way of avoiding, or of reducing, the negative impact of government
policy. The effect of the government's role has been to limit exports (for example of rice, onions,and maize)
and to promote the cultivation of crops under disadvantageous conditions(rice, oil seed crops, industrial crops).