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The members are on roads and are stopping the cane cutting and obstructing tractors carrying cane to the mills.”He added that they were keeping a watch on all the sugar mills in the region, which is considered the sugar bowl of the country. The rates have been declared keeping in view the benefit to farmers,” Khot said. We have organised a motorcycle rally on Thursday to cover these two talukas. So far, not a single sugar mill has started functioning to its full capacity.“In Shirol and Hatkanangle talukas, the situation is fully under our control and all the mills are yet to start crushing there. Kolhapur: The incidents of farmers stopping sugar cane carrying tractors and vehicles in different parts of the district point towards building confrontation over sugar cane purchase pricing.The members of Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana stalled cane cutting and tractors carrying cane to mills at various places in Kagal, Radhanagari and Karveer taluka of Kolhapur district over the past couple of days.In a sugarcane conference organised on October 27, SSS leader Raju Shetti indicated that they would not allow sugar mills start crushing till government accepts their demand of first instalment of cane crop.Bhagwan Kate, Kolhapur district unit head of SSS, said, “Members of our organisation are touring villages in Kolhapur, Sangli and Satara districts and appealing farmers not to send their sugar cane crop to mills till our demands are accepted..