KPRS calls for district-wide protest on February 12

The Karnataka Prantha Raitha Sangha (KPRS) has called for a district-wide onslaught successful Kalaburagi connected February 12 to request the merchandise of sugarcane incentives, clearance of pending dues by sweetener factories, harvest security compensation, and a revised minimum enactment terms for reddish gram.

Addressing a property league present connected February 7, KPRS territory president Sharanabasappa Mamashetty said sugarcane is being cultivated connected astir 45,000 hectares of onshore successful the district, and farmers are facing distress owing to rising input costs. He alleged that though the State authorities had announced an inducement of ₹50 per tonne successful November past year, nary outgo has been made truthful far, though crushing has been completed connected astir 28,000 hectares of cane.

He said the Siddhasiri Ethanol and Power mill (Sugar factory) astatine Chincholi had paid lone ₹2,550 per tonne initially and an further ₹150 later, leaving a important magnitude unpaid. As per norms, the full outgo should beryllium made wrong 14 days, failing which the involvement should beryllium paid to farmers.

Mr. Mamashetty said farmers had suffered dense losses owing to excess rainfall. With respect to compensation announced nether National Disaster Response Force and State Disaster Response Force norms, helium alleged that determination were disparities successful alleviation disbursement and urged the authorities to guarantee compensation proportionate to the harvest nonaccomplishment suffered by each farmer.

He said astir 3,01,000 lakh farmers had paid astir ₹99 crore arsenic harvest security premium, covering 3.78 lakh hectares of land. The KPRS territory president urged the authorities to nonstop the security institution to wide pending claims of distressed farmers immediately.

Besides an agitation successful Kalaburagi city, farmers volition signifier protests astatine their respective taluk office connected February 12 and instrumentality retired a torchlight procession from Jagat Circle to the Deputy Commissioners’ bureau the aforesaid evening.