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Scores of farmers belonging to the Karnataka State Sugarcane Cultivators’ Association staged a protestation successful Mysuru connected Monday, urging the authorities to guarantee that just and remunerative terms (FRP) was fixed for sugarcane crop.
The farmers demanded that FRP should beryllium fixed astatine ₹4,000 a tonne, fixed the summation successful outgo of cultivation. Alleging that the sugarcane cultivators thin to beryllium cheated during weighing of the harvested crop, the relation urged the authorities to marque it mandatory for sweetener mills to instal weighing scales successful beforehand of the factories truthful that determination was transparency successful the process.
The farmers submitted a memorandum astatine the bureau of the Deputy Commissioner and listed down their demands which included just stock successful the profits accruing to the sweetener mills from the merchantability of sugarcane byproducts. The farmers accused a fewer backstage sweetener mills of fraudulent practices specified arsenic showing a diminution successful percent of sweetener recovery. As the outgo of sugarcane is besides fixed connected the sweetener recovery, the relation urged the authorities to represent a squad to show the output oregon sweetener recovery.
The farmers complained of a diminution successful prices of baccy harvest and urged the authorities to behaviour a gathering with the baccy committee and cultivators and assistance bail retired the farmers from fiscal crisis.
Other issues raised by the agitating farmers pertained to summation successful human-wildlife struggle successful villages abutting the wood areas and urged the Ministry acrophobic to summation compensation for harvest loss.
