In a press conference in Shivamogga on Tuesday, P. Ravi Kumar, vice president of the sangha, said that the State Government had granted 1,429 acres and 34 guntas of land to the factory to cultivate sugar cane on lease. The factory returned to the same land in 1991 itself. “The factory has nothing to do with those cultivating the land once granted to the factory on lease. However, some people are spreading false information among farmers,” he said.