Karnataka Chief Minister DK Shivakumar helps break impasse between farmers and sugar factories

Karnataka CM DK Shivakumar held several rounds of meetings with sugar factory managements and the farmers, starting Monday morning. These meetings went on till well beyond midnight and finally a formula was worked out to resolve the matter. The meetings were held at Suvarna Vidhana Soudha and the Circuit House.

New Delhi: Karnataka Chief Minister DK Shivakumar, personally helped end the impasse between the sugar factory management and the sugarcane farmers in the state. The dispute arose after farmers started demanding Rs 5.500 per tonne for the sugarcane. The meeting was held at Circuit House and it went on beyond Monday midnight.

Following the meeting, it was decided that the sugar factory owners would pay for the sugarcane based on the minimum selling price (MSP) for sugar, which is fixed by the Union government. It is expected that the farmers and sugar factory owners would announce their final decision in the matter, within........

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