When farmers S. Surya Prakash and K. Kurmanna saw the concrete canals being laid down at the under-construction ethanol factory near Chittanoor village in Marikal Mandal, Narayanpet district, Telangana, their worst fears were confirmed.
These concrete canals,
they believe, will divert their precious agricultural water from the
fields to the factory, leaving them in such penury that they will be
forced to leave their villages every year to work as ‘Palamuru’ or
migrant labour elsewhere in the country.
