NEW DELHI: Food minister Ram Vilas Paswan said the government is considering to create a 30-lakh tonne sugar buffer stock to clear about Rs 22,000 crore dues of sugarcane farmers to be paid by mills. He said that despite government rolling out minimum indicative export quantity of 20 lakh tonnes, the mills were not able to export sugar in the face of weak global prices. The mills were not fulfilling the condition to avail the Rs 1,540 crore financial assistance package announced by the government wherein farmers were to get Rs 5.50 per quintal of sugarcane supplied to the mills because they were unable to export, officials said. “We are considering a proposal to create a buffer stock of 30 lakh tonne. The industry has not been able to export 20 lakh tonnes as globally prices were lower than the Indian sugar prices,” said Paswan.