Congress MLC Dinesh Gooli Gowda has urged Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to crack the whip against sugar factories in south Karnataka that were refusing to comply with the government’s directions to pay an additional incentive to sugarcane farmers.
In a letter addressed to Mr. Siddaramaiah, Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar, Minister for Sugar Shivanand Patil and Chief Secretary Shalini Rajneesh, Mr. Gowda said the State government had announced an incentive of ₹100 per tonne of sugarcane to the farmers during the crushing season 2025-26 to safeguard the economic interests of the farmers.