Hubballi Chalo padayatra by sugarcane farmers likely to end today

After staging road blockades for a few days, sugarcane farmers launched a Hubballi Chalo padayatra from Hattargi in Belagavi district last week for better prices for sugar and sugarcane. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO

Sugarcane farmers are likely to temporarily withdraw their Hubballi Chalo padayatra on Monday, the sixth day of the agitation for better prices for sugarcane.

The agitation is likely to resume after a farmers rally in New Delhi on October 23, called by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha.

“Senior leaders will take a decision about a pan-India protest for better sugarcane prices, at the Delhi rally. Once a signal is received from there, we will resume the agitation,” one of the farmers leaders said.

Some of the leaders who are participating in the rally held a meeting near Tegur village on the border of Belagavi and Dharwad districts and discussed this issue.

Some of them said that the farmers have been away from their fields since October 13 and the sugarcane crop is drying due to lack of rainfall and lack of corrective irrigation.