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Revenue Minister Krishna Byre Gowda connected Friday criticised the Centre for “keeping mum” and shirking its work amid the ongoing protests by sugarcane growers successful Karnataka seeking a higher Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP).
The Minister pointed retired that the authorization to hole the FRP, heighten ethanol blending, and easiness sweetener export restrictions rests wholly with the Centre and not with the States. “Sugarcane prices volition emergence if the usage of ethanol is increased. Similarly, sweetener prices beryllium connected the Centre’s export and import policies,” helium noted.
“Since the Centre unsocial is empowered to instrumentality decisions connected the issues raised by farmers who are demanding a higher FRP, the State authorities has sought an assignment with Prime Minister Narendra Modi to resoluteness the crisis,” Mr. Byre Gowda told presspersons successful Mysuru.
Mr. Byre Gowda stated that the State had already convened a gathering with sweetener mill representatives to sermon the matter. “All efforts are being made to resoluteness the crisis. If the Centre revises the FRP arsenic demanded, we tin nonstop the factories to comply,” helium said.
The Minister said that farmers were unhappy with the FRP fixed by the Centre and were truthful seeking its revision, though immoderate factories are already paying rates arsenic per the existing FRP.
Further, Mr. Byre Gowda questioned, “Is the Centre sleeping erstwhile farmers are retired connected the streets seeking a just price? Is it not its work to code their concerns?”
