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Members of the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha and Hasiru Sene staged a protestation successful Kanakagiri municipality of Koppal territory connected Monday by dumping reddish gram successful a heap connected the roadworthy demanding a revised minimum enactment terms and an inducement from the State government.
The agitating farmers criticised the State authorities for procuring reddish gram lone astatine Minimum Support Price (MSP) fixed by the Centre, without providing immoderate further incentive.
Addressing a gathering, Kalyana Karnataka divisional president of the Raitha Sangha Pampanna Naik said that procuring reddish gram astatine ₹8,000 per quintal, arsenic fixed by the Centre, is inadequate arsenic it fails to screen adjacent accumulation cost.
He demanded that the MSP beryllium fixed astatine ₹8,500 per quintal and that the State authorities supply an further inducement of ₹4,000 per quintal to guarantee remunerative prices for farmers.
Farmer person Sharanappa Doddamani said that some the Central and State governments are neglecting farmers interests.
He criticised the hold successful installing crest gates astatine the Tungabhadra dam and expressed interest implicit the deficiency of h2o for irrigating rabi crop. He said that the lack of h2o has forced galore farmers into distress and they are migrating successful hunt of work.
The protesters besides demanded that the authorities waive harvest loan, contiguous merchandise of h2o to agriculture fields and besides operation of a imperishable gathering for the Agriculture Department bureau which is presently functioning from a rented gathering successful the taluk.
The protesters submitted a memorandum addressed to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah done the Tahsildar.
