Sugarcane farmers under the banner of the Tamil Nadu Sugarcane Farmers’ Association staged a protest in front of the District collectorate demanding the reopening of the National cooperative Sugar Mills in Alanganallur, reports The Hindu.
Farmers stated that in 2021 after more than 300 farmers protested for 46 days, the Minister for Agriculture announced in Assembly that the government will revive the sugar mill but nothing has happened so far.
N Palanisami, State President, of the Tamil Nadu Sugarcane Farmers Association, said that the government should take steps to reopen the sugar mill as early as possible as more than 2000 acres of land where cane was cultivated had been registered with the mill.
The protesters were detained and later released by the police in the evening.
