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Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s involution “to avert wide husbandman distress successful Karnataka” and uphold the spot and stableness of nation’s cultivation backbone.
In a November 21, 2025 missive to the Prime Minister, which was handed implicit to Mr. Modi by Minister for Health and Family Welfare and Dakshina Kannada in-charge Dinesh Gundu Rao astatine the Mangaluru International Airport connected Friday, the Chief Minister said that prices of maize and greenish gram (moong) successful Karnataka person crashed acold beneath the minimum enactment terms (MSP) declared by the Union government.
The missive said that Karnataka cultivated maize successful implicit 17.94 lakh hectares and greenish gram successful implicit 4.16 lakh hectares successful this Kharif season, and the State is expecting a tentative accumulation of much than 54.74 lakh tonnes of maize and 1.983 lakh tonnes of greenish gram. “Though this should person been an accidental for prosperity, the existent marketplace conditions person turned it into a crisis,” the missive said.
While the Government of India has declared an MSP of ₹2,400 per tonne for maize and ₹ 8,768 per tonne for greenish gram, the prevailing prices successful Karnataka are ₹1,600 to ₹1,800 per tonne for maize and ₹5,400 per tonne for greenish gram, which is simply a terrible and unprecedented fall. Shockingly, adjacent the modal prices implicit the erstwhile 3 years were higher than the MSP. But this year, owed to outer pressures and supply-demand distortions, the prices person dropped to grounds lows, Mr. Siddaramaiah said.
Karnataka presently has an estimated marketable surplus of 32 lakh tonnes of maize, which is acold beyond the absorptive capableness of section industries, the missive said.
The Chief Minister said that since Karnataka does not see maize successful its PDS distribution, FCI, NAFED and different procurement agencies indispensable beryllium directed to instantly commence procurement of maize and greenish gram astatine MSP nether the Price Support Scheme oregon an due marketplace involution mechanism, thereby ensuring terms stableness for farmers.
The missive said that the Union authorities should nonstop the ethanol plants to procure maize straight from farmers oregon farmer-producer organisations (FPOs). If nonstop procurement is not ensured, the inducement fixed to ethanol producers should beryllium reconsidered, arsenic it is not reaching farmers.
The missive sought to summation Karnataka’s ethanol allocation and enforce regularisation successful the import of maize.
The missive was handed implicit to Mr. Modi connected his mode to Udupi from Mangaluru International Airport.
