Summary:
Don’t take farmers as granted,” he warned.“Do you want farmers to continue staging protests and dharnas, attack government offices and sugar mills? There are 24 working sugar mills in Belagavi district and they began sugarcane crushing in October. Think about their plight and gain goodwill of the farmers,” he advised the sugar mills.Bommanhalli said every sugar mill which commenced functioning 14 days ago must make payment to the farmers on Monday. However, only four of them have made partial payment to the farmers.In a meeting with the MDs of sugar mills, the DC said the law over payment is stringent and all the violators will fall in trouble if it is brought into effect. Many complaints about fraud in weighing have been received by the administration and officers will inspect the weighing machines once a week..