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Red gram growers nether the banner of Samyukta Horata Karnataka, Kalaburagi unit, staged a day-and-night protestation extracurricular the Deputy Commissioner’s bureau present connected Thursday successful enactment of their demands to unfastened procurement centres and to revise the minimum enactment terms for reddish gram.
The protesters sought the contiguous opening of exclusive reddish gram procurement centres and fixation of minimum enactment terms astatine ₹12,500 per quintal, stating that prevailing marketplace prices are inadequate to screen the outgo of cultivation.
They besides demanded a cooperative-based procurement strategy connected the lines of the Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF) model.
Karnataka Prantha Raitha Sangha territory president Sharanabasappa Mamshetty said that the State authorities should supply a accumulation inducement of ₹1,000 per quintal, with an further inducement of ₹1,000 per quintal from the Union government, to guarantee remunerative returns to farmers.
He besides sought imposition of a 50% import work connected reddish gram, saying that imports are adversely affecting home prices.
Activists Bheemshankar Madiyal, Maula Mulla and Umapathi Patil urged the territory medication to statesman procurement operations instantly to forestall distress sales.
They besides called for aboriginal colony of harvest security claims and demanded waiver of cultivation loans availed by farmers from nationalised banks.
