Rs 300 cr for sugarcane farmers

The Karnataka government has decided to release Rs 300 crore towards additional support price to sugarcane farmers for the year 2013-14.

During the winter session of the state legislative assembly the state government had announced that it will give Rs 150 per tonne additional support price to farmers.

"The amount will be paid to sugarcane farmers through the respective deputy commissioners. The sugar mills would be crushing an estimated 30 million tonnes of sugarcane during the current sugar season," said Prakash B Hukkeri, minister for sugar.

Hukkeri said the budget session of the legislative assembly will be held in Bangalore over a period of 10 days and the joint session of the house will be addressed by Governor H R Bhardwaj.

The chief minister would announce the date of the commencement of the session soon, he said.Briefing reporters on the outcome of cabinet meeting chaired by chief minister Siddaramaiah, here on Friday, T B Jayachandra, minister for law and parliamentary affairs said the government has decided to set up one more milk dairy in Chamarajanagar district at a cost of Rs 83 crore.