Kondaiah takes up farmers’ cause

 

Bellary: Former MP  K.C. Kondaiah on Thursday appealed to the state government to accept the Ranganathan Committee report and allow sugarcane growers to sell their produce to any sugar factory in the state.

 

Welcoming the judgment of the Karnataka High Court that set aside the orders of the Deputy Commissioner, Davanagere, who had issued orders that cane growers in Davanagere district must sell their sugarcane to Shamanur Sugar Factory in Davanagere and that sugarcane growers of Davanagere can sell their sugarcane anywhere in state, Kondaiah said in a press release issed on Thursday that as per the Rangarajan Committee recommendation, the Union government had abolished the Sugar  Control Act 1966.

 

Kondaiah said price fixation, area restriction and distance between two sugar factories are within the preview of the state government and hence his appeal to accept Rangarajan committee report.

 

Kondaiah, a senior Congress leader, also wondered  why sugarcane growersin the state  were being discriminated against when other farmers are able to  sell their produce (food grains, cotton, chilly etc) anywhere in the country?