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Sugarcane growers in a fix over govt order
Speaking to The Hans India here on Sunday, a farmer Balaiah, lamented that he doesn’t know what to do with the crop with so many constraints. He said that last year, there were no sufficient rains but he toiled hard to grow sugarcane on his two acres of land. He said that he used to water the crop once in a week after digging bore wells.
Nizamabad: As many as 3.000 farmers in the district, who cultivate sugarcane, are in a fix as they do not know what to do with the jaggery that has come to yield. They are unable to get remunerative price or MSP on their crop. Moreover, they are unable to transport it to the factory. Furthermore, the State government has imposed restrictions on the burning of jaggery.
Speaking to The Hans India here on Sunday, a farmer Balaiah, lamented that he doesn’t know what to do with the crop with so many constraints. He said that last year, there were no sufficient rains but he toiled hard to grow sugarcane on his two acres of land. He said that he used to water the crop once in a week after digging bore wells.
It is not only the plight of Balaiah but several other farmers in Kamareddy and Nizamabad district who sowed sugarcane. They can neither sell their crop nor prepare jaggery. In Kamareddy district, farmers cultivated sugar on 8,200 hectares of land. The cultivation of sugarcane, particularly in Bibipet, Machareddy, Domakunta, Bhikkanur, Tadvaai, Sadashivnagar, Ramareddy and Gandhari mandals is higher than that of paddy crop. In these mandals, the availability of water is less and the ground water resources are insufficient. As a result, the sugar crop could be cultivated only once in a week. That is why, farmers show more interest in preparing jaggery from the crop than taking it to the factory for selling it.
Kamareddy district is known for producing large quantities of jaggery and the farmers used to earn MSP on their product. They used to burn sugarcane in their agricultural fields and prepare jaggery. However, with the government imposing restrictions on the burning of sugarcane, farmers are in a fix.
A farmer from Machareddy, Ramaiah, said that they were overjoyed when the sugarcane crop came to yield and thought of cooking jaggery by burning of sugarcane. But now, the government’s decision to impose restrictions on burning of sugarcane has come as a bolt from the blue, he lamented. He wondered as to how he could prepare jaggery and clear his loans.
Another farmer Narsimhlu said that they do not have enough money to transport sugarcane to the factory. They expressed the hope that the State government would do something to mitigate their
sufferings.
