Farmer groups submit demands to central team on sugarcane pricing

Leaders of various farmer organizations submitted demands to a central study team led by Ramesh Chandra on Thursday. They requested the team to make recommendations, including fixing a scientific price for sugarcane. Representatives from the State Farmers Union, Karnataka Prantha Raitha Sangha, and the State Sugarcane Growers Association demanded a fair and profitable price (FRP) based on the cost of sugarcane cultivation, with an additional 50% increase. They also requested that the FRP calculation consider a sugarcane yield of 9.5% instead of 10.25% and that state governments support setting the FRP based on local experience.