Sugar cane cultivators represent a demonstration in Mysur on Monday. | Photo Credit: Ma Sriram
On Monday, in Mysur, Mysur in Mysur, she was protesting to ensure that the fair and rewarding price (FRP) be determined for the crop of sugar cane, which belongs to the Association of Sugar Cute cultivators in Karnataka, which belongs to the Association of Cultivators of Sugar Cunting.
Farmers demanded FRP to be set at 4,000 GBP per tonne, due to the increase in growing costs. The association, which claimed that sugar cane cultivators tend to be cheated during the weighing crop, urged the government to install a weighing scale in front of the factory for the sugar mill.
Farmers submitted a memorandum in the office representative of the Commissioner and stated their requirements, which included a fair share of profits that appear in sugar mills from the sale of by -products of sugar cane. Farmers accused several private mills for sugar mills of fraudulent practices, such as the percentage of the percentage of sugar regeneration. Since the costs of sugar cane are also set for recovery of sugar, the association called on the government to establish a team to monitor the yield or recovery of sugar.
Farmers complained about a drop in tobacco prices and urged the authorities to meet the tobacco council and cultivators and to help save farmers from the financial crisis.
Other problems raised by agitative farmers concerned an increase in the conflicts of human and tistical in the villages adjacent to forest areas and urged the ministry to increase compensation for loss of crops.
Published – 29 September 2025 06:42
