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Farmers nether the banner of the Karnataka State Sugarcane Growers’ Association connected Tuesday staged a protestation successful beforehand of the Deputy Commissioner’s bureau urging the authorities to instantly statesman the registration process for paddy procurement centres.
Farmer person Hallikerehundi Bhagyaraj, who led the protest, submitted a memorandum to the territory medication demanding fulfilment of farmers’ demands.
Addressing the protestors, Mr. Bhagyaraj demanded that the State authorities hole an further terms of ₹500 per quintal implicit the Centre’s Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) of ₹2,369 for paddy.
He urged that registration for procurement statesman astatine the gram panchayat level without delay.
Mr. Bhagyaraj alleged that atom from different States were being distributed done the Public Distribution System (PDS), portion section farmers’ nutrient were being neglected. The government, helium said, indispensable acquisition each paddy grown by section farmers done procurement centres without imposing conditions, and a associated committee of the Agriculture and Revenue Departments should beryllium formed to oversee the process.
He besides demanded that procurement centres beryllium opened instantly and payments credited straight to farmers’ slope accounts wrong 3 days of purchase.
Mr. Bhagyaraj said Karnataka should travel the Maharashtra exemplary and wage ₹3,500 per tonne (excluding harvesting and transport charges) straight to farmers. Citing examples from a Gujarat factory, which pays ₹3,850 per tonne, helium urged the State authorities to reconstitute the State Advisory Price (SAP) Committee instantly and hole prices connected par with Maharashtra and Gujarat.
He sought a compensation of ₹1 crore for families of farmers who suffer their lives owed to attacks by chaotic animals, and warned that farmers would motorboat an indefinite protestation successful beforehand of Deputy Commissioners’ offices crossed the State if it fails to bash so.
