Call for picketing mills to stop sugar sales for less than ₹60 per kg

Protesting sugarcane farmers being addressed by Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Roshan and Police Commissioner Prakash Nikam during the padayatra in Belagavi on Thursday. | Photo Credit: P.K. BADIGER

Farmer leader Chunappa Pujeri has given a call to all sugarcane farmers to picket in front of sugar factories not to allow them to sell sugar for less than ₹60 per kg.

He told reporters near Suvarna Soudha in Belagavi on Thursday that farmers welcomed the Central panel and hoped that it will support their demands by giving recommendations to revise MSP for sugar and FRP for sugarcane.

“However, sugarcane growers do not have the luxury of time needed for the committee to study the issue and give recommendations. Till then, we will force the government to accept our demands by picketing in front of sugar factories. We will make sure that sugar is not sold for less than ₹60 a kg by the factories. This movement will continue till the government announces revised MSP and FRP,” he said.

Meanwhile, farmers, who are spending the night near the Suvarna Soudha, will leave for Hubballi on Friday morning.

Senior officers, including Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Roshan and Police Commissioner Prakash Nikam, met the farmers who are out on a padayatra.

The protestors gave a copy of their memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner who assured them that he will convey all their concerns to the State government.