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Cane growers demand free power

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Up in arms: Sugarcane growers take out a rally in Puducherry on Monday to highlight their demands.

PUDUCHERRY: A large number of sugarcane growers belonging to villages around Puducherry took out a rally on Monday demanding, among other things, free power supply for farm activities.

They also demanded that a tripartite meeting be convened to decide the price of sugarcane.

Rallying under the banner of ‘Ananithu Karumbu Vivasayigal Sangam’, many farmers marched in their bullock carts to the head post office from the new bus stand. Several farmers walked along carrying sugarcane. They raised slogans calling for disbursement of procurement for the cane growers, extension of the UT government’s loan waiver up to December 2006, ensuring that the benefit of the loan waiver announced in the Union Budget reached the farmers, striving for evolving a new agreement for sugar price and abandonment of the Enterprise Resource Planning system which had become a liability for agriculturists.

They pleaded with the government to announce a procurement price of Rs.1,500 per tonne.

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