“Prices should remain more or less in this range. Even if they firm up a bit, they would ease once the next crushing season starts. We hope there is no knee-jerk intervention on the part of the Centre, more so when it has raised the base FRP payable for 2017-18 to Rs 2,550 per tonne,” pointed out Rohit Pawar, chief executive officer of Baramati Agro Ltd, which operates two sugar mills in Maharashtra.