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| Crush cane or face action |
| Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy at a meeting with farmers, sugar factory representatives and leaders of all political parties in Bangalore
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| INDIA
, 13-April-2007
1:32:37 AM |
| Sugar factories must get their act together and begin lifting cane for crushing or face the wrath of the Government, Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy said here on Thursday. He reprimanded the sugar factory managements for harping on their own problems to delay the crushing that ought to have begun two months ago.
At a meeting of farmers, sugar factory representatives and leaders of all political parties summoned after Wednesday's suicide attempt by farmers in Jewargi, Mr. Kumaraswamy said the factories' problems were not of such an urgent nature that they should drive hapless farmers to suicide by not purchasing their cane. "I have already instructed the Deputy Commissioners in all cane-growing districts to depute an officer who will ensure that the factories begin crushing the cane brought in by the farmers, before taking on consignments from outside the State," he said.
"If factories do not comply, the Government will not hesitate to initiate action as per law," Mr. Kumaraswamy said. Representatives of the cane factories had met him at least five times in the past six months, and in all that time, there had been no talk of fixing the purchase price nor had crushing started.
There are enough sops for the factories (of the 56 in the State, 46 are functional), and some in the pipeline and there can be no justification for driving desperate farmers to the extreme step of attempting suicide, Mr. Kumaraswamy reiterated. These include a subsidy of Rs. 100 a tonne of cane crushed after April 16, 2007. Purchase tax has been exempted for one year from April 1 2007.
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