"The government will also make efforts to pay an additional amount of Rs 200 per tonne to the farmers by the mills in two installments by next March end," Prasad said.
Indirectly putting the onus on the Centre, Prasad said the NDA government has not given clear assurance to the state regarding the increase of import duty on raw sugar to 40 per cent from the present 25 per cent in order to arrest the price fall in open market.
"Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has already met the Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan with our demands - to increase import duty on raw sugar and ethanol blending, but the Centre has not given clear assurance as he (Paswan) is yet to talk to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on these issues," he said.
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Not satisfied by the reply of the minister, both BJP and JDS members trooped into the well of the House and shouted slogans against the government.
Amidst the din, Speaker Kagodu Thimappa adjourned the House till December 15.
Raising the issue, Opposition Leader Jagadish Shettar alleged that the government has failed to commit itself to paying Rs 2,500 per metric tonne to sugarcane growers.
Shettar alleged that the government is anti-farmers.