An expert committee has been constituted to study the complaints of sugarcane farmers that their produce was short-weighed at the sugar factories and sugar recovery rate was deliberately shown less than actual to cheat them of the Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) fixed by the government.
The seven-member expert committee with Joint Director of Agriculture, Mandya, as the Member Secretary, will visit all the five sugar factories in Mandya district and hold an inquiry into both the complaints made by the farmers at a recent grievances meeting held in the district.
The officials from the Department of Legal Metrology have been instructed to assist the experts’ team during its visits to the sugar factories to inquire whether the sugarcane was being under weighed and the farmers were being cheated. The Assistant Controller of the Department of Legal Metrology has been asked to extend technical assistance to the team of experts.
