Article Kalappa Gangappa Arekere- sugarcane farmer from Karnataka

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Kalappa Gangappa Arekere- sugarcane farmer from Karnataka - Value addition improves farm revenues

Becomes jaggery maker to increase the farm income

“Sugar factories never make the payments on time and they do not have fixed rate for sugarcane therefore we started processing sugarcane into jaggery ourselves from the first year itself. As we are processing jaggery at home, our income is better when compared to selling sugarcane to the factories. We understand sugar rate are subject to change in the market but sugar factories pay us quite low. In the beginning it was Rs...

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