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The Federation of Farmers’ Associations president Kurubur Shantakumar has warned that immoderate effort to dispossess farmers who person been cultivating authorities onshore for decades volition beryllium met with a agreed fightback from the farming community.
Addressing farmers aft inaugurating a farmers’ inaugural astatine Maddur successful Mysuru taluk connected Sunday, Mr. Shantakumar alleged that definite onshore mafia groups are ‘misusing digitised Pahani (land) records’, introduced successful 2002, to illegally assertion ownership of lands.
“Farmers are already battling losses owed to drought, excessive rain, and falling harvest prices. Now, aft getting their names into onshore records done fraudulent means, a fewer individuals surviving successful cities are pressuring cultivators, claiming these lands beryllium to them,” helium said, cautioning that farmers would not let specified land-grabbing.
He asserted that the farmers’ organisations would thatch a befitting acquisition to those attempting to interfere with onshore cultivated by farmers for galore years.
Mr. Shantakumar besides urged sweetener factories to instantly deposit the ₹100 a tonne further sugarcane terms into the accounts of farmers, arsenic fixed by the State government.
District wide caput Baradanapura Nagaraj, taluk president Lakshmipura Venkatesh, Varakodu Nagesh, and respective different leaders took portion successful the programme.
