Bengaluru (PTI): Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday sought an urgent appointment with Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss "the serious situation" arising out of the ongoing farmers' agitation.

The farmers in the northern districts of the state are demanding a fair price of Rs 3,500 per tonne for sugarcane.

The CM claimed that the root of the problem lies in central policy levers: the Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) formula, the stagnating Minimum Support Price (MSP) for sugar, export curbs and the under-utilised ethanol offtake from sugar-based feedstock.

The protest by farmers at Gurlapur Cross in Mudalagi taluk of Belagavi district entered the eighth day on Thursday. It has also spread across various parts of north Karnataka districts like Belagavi, Bagalkote, Vi

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