Activists of the Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatna (SSS), a farmers` organisation, on Monday staged an agitation in <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/news/india-news/article/tunisha-sharma-death-bjp-giving-love-jihad-angle-to-divert-peoples-attention-says-nana-patole-23262437" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Maharashtra</a>`s Latur district over various demands, including crop insurance.
Activists and leaders of the organisation staged a dharna outside the collector`s office here.
Protestors have demanded that farmers should be paid a protected amount of Rs 54,000 per hectare under soybean crop insurance, advocate Vijaykumar Jadhav, an office-bearer of the organisation said.
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Among other demands, farmers have also sought that a lump sum of Rs 3,000 per hectare be paid for sugarcane for the year 2022-23, weighing scale of all sugar factories be made online and relief amount be disbursed to farmers who suffered crop losses due to heavy <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/news/india-news/article/imd-predicts-heavy-to-very-heavy-rains-in-10-districts-of-tn-23262416" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">rains</a>, he said.
Incentive subsidy of up to Rs 50,000 is being distributed to farmers who repay loans regularly and two lists have been declared. The SSS has demanded that a third list also be released immediately and grants be transferred to beneficiaries, Jadhav said.
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