Senkarumbu cultivators dejected with procurement price
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Farmers who had raised senkarumbu have expressed their displeasure over the government’s failure to hike the procurement price for canes to be procured for disbursement as part of the Pongal gift hamper scheme for the year 2024.
In a memorandum e-mailed to Chief Minister M. K. Stalin, Tamil Nadu Cauvery Farmers Protection Association Secretary Sundara Vimalanathan pointed out that it was disheartening to note that the procurement price per cane has been retained at ₹33 per cane that was given last year though it was well known to the officials that the input costs for raising the sugarcane had increased by around 25 per cent over the cultivation cost incurred by the sugarcane cultivators last year…..
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