Ponda: Annoyed with the passive response from the state goernment over the future of Sanjivani Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana – the state-run lone sugar factory, a total of 318 farmers from Sanguem taluka who are engaged in cultivating sugarcane have demanded that they should be compensated for the next ten years if the government decides to completely shut down the factory. This they said was to sustain them as it will be difficult to quickly bring about a change in crop cultivation.
In a memorandum signed by all 318 cane farmers and addressed to chief minister Pramod Sawant, the farmers have requested him to respond by September 25. The memorandum was submitted to deputy chief minister agriculture minister Chandrakant Kavalekar.
“Since there is no favourable response from government, the Sanguem farmers who had met recently resolved to write to the chief minister to clear the government’s stand on the sugar factory by September 25,” said Francis Mascarenhas, a leading farmer from Vade-Sanguem.
The farmers who gathered at Vade in Kurdi under the banner of ‘Kurdi Vividh Karyakari Sahakari Seva Society, Sanguem’ have also demanded that the compensation must be calculated at 30 tonne per acre of land under cultivation of sugarcane, at the current rate of Rs 3,600 per tonne.
Goa has around 950 sugarcane farmers, with an area admeasuring 800ha (2,000 acres) under cultivation, with Sanguem taluka being the largest contributor of cane to the sugar factory.
In a memorandum signed by all 318 cane farmers and addressed to chief minister Pramod Sawant, the farmers have requested him to respond by September 25. The memorandum was submitted to deputy chief minister agriculture minister Chandrakant Kavalekar.
“Since there is no favourable response from government, the Sanguem farmers who had met recently resolved to write to the chief minister to clear the government’s stand on the sugar factory by September 25,” said Francis Mascarenhas, a leading farmer from Vade-Sanguem.
The farmers who gathered at Vade in Kurdi under the banner of ‘Kurdi Vividh Karyakari Sahakari Seva Society, Sanguem’ have also demanded that the compensation must be calculated at 30 tonne per acre of land under cultivation of sugarcane, at the current rate of Rs 3,600 per tonne.
Goa has around 950 sugarcane farmers, with an area admeasuring 800ha (2,000 acres) under cultivation, with Sanguem taluka being the largest contributor of cane to the sugar factory.
