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Farmers stage demonstration

Photo: E. Lakshmi Narayanan

Hear us: Farmers raising slogans at grievances redressal day meeting in Salem on Friday. –

SALEM: Farmers, cutting across various political parties, staged a brief demonstration during their grievances day meeting here on Friday to demand an enhanced minimum support price for cane.

The farmers raised slogans inside the room where the district administration organised the monthly farmers’ grievances day meeting.

They said that the present price was insufficient and hence wanted the State to raise it to Rs. 2,000 a tonne immediately.

They narrated the woes of cane farmers who had been undergoing miseries in the state due to various reasons.

Hence the rise in the cane price alone would save them from any disaster.

They asked the State to increase the price of milk too by Rs. 2 a litre. Many of the farmers who maintained cattle were suffering from shortage of fodder and labour and hence an increase in the milk would benefit them immensely. They asked the government to distribute fodder like oil cakes for cattle in fair price shops. The meeting presided over by Joint Director of Agriculture S. Manickam concentrated on routine subjects such as the rains, desliting of tanks, encroachments and better remuneration for farmers’ produce.

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