New Delhi, Oct 12 Karnataka Chief Minister D K Shivakumar met Union Food Minister Pralhad Joshi here on Monday and discussed issues concerning state sugarcane growers.
Shivakumar visited late at night as he could not attend the meeting convened by Joshi earlier during the day to discuss the issues and protests concerning sugarcane growers in Karnataka and Maharashtra.
Shivakumar discussed all “issues faced by the state sugarcane growers, fixing of minimum selling price of sugar, and other matters,” according to the CMO’s statement.
Joshi and his counterpart, Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, held a nearly three-hour-long meeting with the farmer leaders from these two states.
Later, they decided to set up a high-level committee within a week to resolve the grievances of sugarcane growers.
(PTI News)
