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Scores of farmers from crossed Mysuru territory staged a objection successful the metropolis connected Friday seeking an upward revision successful harvest compensation claims computed by the authorities.
The protest, led by Kurubur Shanthakumar, president of the Federation of Farmers’ Association, was held successful beforehand of the Deputy Commissioner’s office.
Mr. Shanthakumar said that the compensation, calculated for harvest nonaccomplishment owed to vagaries of nature, has not been revised since the past 8 years. The authorities has nary qualms expanding the salaries of MPs, MLAs, and employees, but is adamant astir not hiking the harvest compensation to lucifer the existent nonaccomplishment suffered by the farmers, helium added.
He claimed that each nationalist representatives shed crocodile tears for farmers but connection pittance successful instrumentality and show nary committedness to assistance the second to tide implicit their fiscal distress.
The farmers submitted a memorandum to the authorities and demanded that the norms nether National Disaster Response Fund beryllium revised and compensation beryllium accrued for losses owed to floods, excessive rains, and different earthy calamities.
According to the farmers, the existing compensation was not lone unscientific, but besides conscionable a token amount. They sought a minimum of ₹25,000 per acre for rain-fed crops, ₹40,000 per acre for irrigated and horticultural crops, and ₹60,000 per acre for commercialized crops arsenic compensation successful lawsuit of harvest nonaccomplishment owed to vagaries of nature.
The federation members urged the Centre to revise the NDRF norms which has not been changed for 8 years.
Farmers from Kalyana Karnataka and North Karnataka who person suffered harvest losses owed to the caller rains that resulted successful floods should beryllium granted a peculiar alleviation bundle of ₹5,000 crore, akin to the 1 extended successful Punjab, said Mr. Shanthakumar.
The federation members said that MPs from Karnataka, including those who are Cabinet Ministers astatine the Centre, should instrumentality up the contented with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The farmers besides sought a indebtedness waiver fixed the back-to-back calamities that affected them, either by mode of excessive rains oregon drought.
Other demands included a stock successful the profits arising retired of the merchantability of sugarcane byproducts by the factories. The farmers besides demanded that the State Advisory Price for sugarcane beryllium fixed astatine ₹3,700 per tonne arsenic suggested by the Agricultural Price Commission. The authorities indispensable besides guarantee the outgo of an further complaint of ₹150 per tonne arsenic announced 2 years ago, said the memorandum of demands.
Installation of weighing machines oregon scales by the authorities astatine sweetener factories to minimise cheating, resumption of MGNREGA strategy for cultivation works, summation successful Minimum Support Price for paddy from ₹2,369 per quintal to ₹2,869 per quintal, including ₹500 arsenic inducement per quintal, were different cardinal demands raised by the farmers.
Among those contiguous successful the protestation included office-bearers of the federation.
