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Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS) has urged Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to accord apical precedence to farmers’ payment and agriculture successful the upcoming budget, stating that uncertainty and insecurity are haunting the farming community. Efforts should beryllium made to fortify the assemblage and uplift distressed farmers.
KRRS president Badagalapura Nagendra told reporters successful Mysuru connected Friday that a peculiar allocation should beryllium announced successful the fund for the improvement of the recently created taluks of Saligrama and Sargur successful Mysuru district, successful summation to the irrigation projects sanctioned for the district.
At the pre-budget treatment gathering held successful Bengaluru connected February 17, chaired by the Chief Minister, KRRS office-bearers enactment guardant 19 demands and 13 peculiar and indispensable programmes to beryllium included successful the budget, helium said.
Urging the State and Central governments to travel to the rescue of baccy growers who are successful distress owed to the terms crash, helium said farmers successful Periyapatna, H.D. Kote, Hunsur and Nanjangud successful Mysuru district; Gundlupet successful Chamarajanagar district; and Arkalgud successful Hassan territory are severely affected by the autumn successful prices. High taxes connected baccy were cited arsenic 1 of the reasons for the diminution successful prices, helium added.
Lashing retired astatine the State authorities for allowing safari operations successful Bandipur and Nagarahole, Mr. Nagendra condemned the determination and demanded that safaris beryllium stopped immediately. Safaris had been stopped pursuing tiger attacks connected humans successful Sargur and H.D. Kote areas.
