‘Additional sugarcane price to be credited to farmers within 10 days’

Karnataka State Sugarcane Growers’ Association president Kurubur Shanthkumar connected February 3 said that the Deputy Commissioner of Mysuru has assured that the further terms for sugarcane fixed by the State authorities volition beryllium credited to farmers’ slope accounts wrong the adjacent 10 days.

A gathering of sugarcane growers, sweetener mill representatives and elder territory officials was convened by Deputy Commissioner G. Lakshmikanth Reddy astatine the zilla panchayat auditorium to sermon farmers’ issues and demands.

In a property release, Mr. Shanthkumar said the Deputy Commissioner informed the gathering that the authorities had fixed an further ₹100 per tonne for sugarcane and that the Finance Department had already released the required funds.

Priority list

The Deputy Commissioner has warned sweetener factories that from the adjacent season, a precedence database for sugarcane harvesting registrations indispensable beryllium released each month, and harvesting should beryllium carried retired strictly according to the list. He said strict enactment would beryllium initiated against factories that failed to comply with the directive.

Farmers besides urged the authorities to merchandise h2o done canals to capable tanks and lakes and to supply drinking h2o for cattle, pointing retired that the Kabini reservoir presently has h2o up to 75 feet. Joint Director of Agriculture Ravi said the contented would beryllium placed earlier the Irrigation Advisory Committee wrong a week and indispensable steps would beryllium taken.

Zilla panchayat main enforcement serviceman Yukesh Kumar, Deputy Superintendent of Police Mallik, Joint Director of Agriculture Ravi, Joint Directors of the District Food Department and husbandman leaders Attahalli Devaraj, Hallikerehundi Bhagyaraj, Somasekhar, Kirugasuru Shankar, Burdanapura Nagaraj, Lakshmipura Venkatesh, K.R. Nagar Thimmappa, Kurubur Siddesh, among others, were present.