The farmers of Narayanankhed are on agitation mode as sugarcane procurement has not been expedited by the GSR Sugar Industry, located at Magi in Nizamsagar mandal of Kamareddy district. Several farmers from 15 villages in Nagalgidda mandal under Narayanakhed had cultivated sugarcane and their produce was supposed to be procured by GSR Sugar Limited.
They allege that sugarcane yield in the fields had been drastically reduced due to lack of water and that diversion of Singoor water to Sriramsagar project has had an adverse impact on the fields.
Additional expense
In addition, though GSR had signed an agreement with farmers to purchase the sugarcane, their lorries were being forced to wait before the factory gate for more than four days, thereby resulting in decay of harvested sugarcane, which would reduce their income. They were being forced to pay rent for vehicles for the days of wait, and also the labour in the field had to be engaged for a few more days forcing the farmers to pay those charges as well.
Rasta roko
Furious over the lack of response from the factory management, the farmers held rasta roko at NH 50. With the intervention of Suresh Shetkar from Congress and P. Sanjeeva Reddy from BJP , the factory management assured to procure crush the sugarcane from the farmers.
