Sugarcane cultivators and farmers using agricultural pump sets have planned a Vidhana Soudha Chalo programme on September 26 in protest against the Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) for sugarcane announced by the Centre recently and the proposed Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2022.
President of Sugarcane Growers’ Association of Karnataka Kurubur Shanthakumar accused the Centre of betraying the sugarcane farmers of the country by increasing the FRP recently from ₹290 to ₹305 per quintal while increasing the sugar recovery rate from 10% to 10.25%.
The sugarcane farmers have been claiming that the increase in FRP would effectively be only ₹5 per quintal that does not commensurate with the increase in the cost of cultivation including prices of fertilizers, pesticides and labour costs. He demanded a review of the FRP so that sugarcane cultivation becomes remunerative to the farmers.
