Farmer organisations in Maharashtra are on the warpath on the issue of cane payments and have threatened agitations to get the entire payment as promised at the start of the season. The Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana (SSS), one of the more aggressive farmer organisations in the state, has threatened an agitator in Solapur on February 16 and another in Kolhapur on February 17. With sliding sugar prices, several mills in Maharashtra have expressed their inability to make cane payments and some of them have been giving reduced prices to farmers. As per discussions at the start of the season, sugar millers from south Maharashtra had agreed to pay Rs 200 per tonne over and above the Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP).