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Scores of farmers staged a objection urging the authorities to commence paddy procurement astatine Minimum Support Price (MSP) without delay, successful Mysuru connected December 9.
The objection was led by Kurubur Shanthakumar, president of Federation of Farmers Association and State Sugarcane Cultivators Association.
The farmers alleged that though the authorities assertion to person opened paddy procurement centres, these are lone connected insubstantial and that the process of registering farmers’ names is inactive ongoing. The existent process of paddy procurement is yet to commence and this is causing fiscal distress to the farming assemblage arsenic paddy prices person begun to fall, said Mr. Shanthakumar.
He said the cultivation outgo of paddy had accrued but the MSP fixed by the Union authorities does not origin this into account. ‘’The MSP for paddy is ₹2,369 per quintal and is mode beneath the cultivation cost. Such pricing policies propulsion farmers into distress,’’ helium said, demanding that the MSP for paddy beryllium accrued to ₹3,000 per quintal.
The farmers besides alleged that backstage sweetener factories were not procuring sugarcane astatine the Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) fixed by the authorities and hence privation the authorities to ace down connected specified practices. The agitating farmers besides sought a stock successful the profits accrued by the backstage mill from merchantability of by-products of sugarcane.
Deputy Commissioner G. Lakshmikanth Reddy, who received the memorandum from the farmers, assured that paddy and ragi procurement centres would commencement functioning from December 11. He besides promised to clasp a gathering connected December 29 with the sweetener mill absorption and husbandman leaders regarding pending sugarcane dues and different issues.
