The state government has denied financial assistance to sugar industries, advised sugar barons to continue running their mills as a normal business, raise funds from open market and not expect any subsidies, state cooperatives minister Chandrakant Patil said here today.

He was speaking to reporters here after meeting a delegation of sugar mill owners, who demanded an interest free
loan of Rs 2,000 crore to the sugar industry. Incidentally, the statement came after Maharashtra Cooperative Sugar Mill Owners' Federation Chairman Vijaysingh Mohite Patil met Chandrakant Patil today.