Sugar, sugarcane: India
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Cultivation
2013- 2016: decline in Karnataka
H.S. NARASIMHA KUMAR, Sugarcane cultivation sees major decline, March 14, 2017: The Hindu
Growers discouraged by government’s failure to get them remunerative prices
The Karnataka State Sugarcane Growers’ Association has said that there has been a substantial decline in sugarcane cultivation in Karnataka. It noted that in 2013, sugarcane was grown across 9.5 lakh hectares, while in 2016, it was grown across just three lakh hectares in the State.
If the government failed to encourage cane growers by giving them interest free loans and through scientific pricing, they would stop cultivating the crop and sugar factories may have to be shut, it stated.
Kuruburu Shanthkumar, president of the association, told reporters here on Monday that even the number of farmers cultivating sugarcane had reduced considerably in the State. He said that cane growers were discouraged by the failure of the government to get them remunerative prices. The government would get a tax of Rs. 3,000 per tonne sugarcane and the sudden fall in production had resulted in heavy losses to the State exchequer, he said.
The FRP (Fair and Remunerative price) which was fixed at Rs. 2,200 per tonne in 2014-15 has not been enhanced for three years though prices of sugar had touched Rs. 50 per kg, Mr. Shanthkumar said adding that farmers were incurring couple of hundred rupees losses for each tonne of cane that they had grown instead of earning the same in profits.
The association has urged the Union government to implement the recommendation of the M.S. Swaminathan committee forthwith. He urged the State government to give crop loss compensation of Rs. 25, 000 per acre to farmers who have incurred crop loss owing to drought in the State in the past two years.
Mr. Shanthkumar also urged the government to waive off all farm loans to prevent farmers resorting to drastic measures. He said that it was high time the government realised that the farmers were made to incur losses in the absence of a system to get remunerative prices for agriculture produce.
