The Bangladesh Chinikal Akkhchasi Federation, an association of farmers supplying sugarcanes to the nationalised sugar mills, announced on Sunday that it would wage a movement to press a seven-point set of demands including increasing the price of sugarcanes and bringing down the recently hiked price of urea fertiliser to its previous level.
Farmers are losing interest in cultivating sugarcane because of its low price and increased price of urea, said the federation general secretary, Mohammad Akkas Ali, in a press conference at the Dhaka Reporters’ Unity.
He said, to press its home demands, the federation would wage a movement including handing over a memorandum to the managing directors of the sugar mills on September 29, forming a human chain in front of the National Press Club on October 10, and handing over a memorandum to industries minister Dilip Barua on October 16.
The federation will go for tougher programme, if its demands are not fulfilled by October 20, its president Golam Sarwer told the press conference.
Sugar production is on the wane as the farmers have been producing less sugarcane following an increase in its production costs, the federation leaders said.
The farmers now are getting Tk 83 for a maund (37.3 kilograms) of sugarcane and the federation said they demanded to increase the price to Tk 120 per maund.
Federation leaders Sirajul Islam, Iddris Ali, and Yasin Ali were also present in the conference.
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