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The Federation of Farmers Organisations and members of the State Sugarcane Growers Association met present connected Thursday and sought an upward revision of compensation paid for harvest nonaccomplishment done the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF).
The farmers, led by Kurubur Shanthakumar, said that the Centre should revise and heighten the compensation paid for harvest nonaccomplishment owed to earthy calamities similar rainfall oregon flood damage. Mr. Shanthakumar stated that the magnitude paid astatine contiguous was measly and did not screen adjacent the input cost, and mentioned that determination volition beryllium protests crossed the State connected October 24 successful enactment of their demands.
Mr. Shanthakumar said that the NDRF compensation computed for harvest nonaccomplishment owed to rains, floods, and different earthy calamities, were not technological and hence it called for a technological reappraisal based connected the crushed situation. The Centre should instantly amend the norms and denote a peculiar bundle for the farmers of Kalyana Karnataka and North Karnataka who person suffered terrible harvest losses owed to the caller floods, helium added.
The federation members discussed the fiscal nonaccomplishment accrued by the farmers owed to incessant rains and wanted the authorities to waive disconnected the harvest indebtedness availed by the farmers.
Mr. Shanthakumar said the State Advisory Price (SAP) for sugarcane should bespeak the outgo of cultivation, which was ₹3,700 per month, and this has been brought to the announcement of the Commission connected Agricultural Costs and Prices. Hence the State authorities should denote an SAP of ₹3,700 per ton for sugarcane, helium added.
The farmers besides questioned the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for paddy, which has been fixed astatine ₹2,369 per quintal by the State government. Dubbing it arsenic unscientific, the farmers’ organisations said that the authorities should supply an further inducement of ₹500 per quintal and instantly unfastened paddy procurement centres.
The federation besides announced that World Farmers’ Day volition beryllium celebrated connected December 23 astatine Kalaburagi and it would beryllium marked by a State-level farmers’ convention. During the event, 10 farmers volition beryllium felicitated successful designation of their publication to the farming sector.
More than 200 farmers attended the meeting, including representatives from Hasiru Sene and different organisations.
