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Teams to check hoarding

DAVANGERE: The State Government has directed the Agriculture Department to form vigilance teams in all the districts to trace illegal stock of fertilizers and check the sale of fertilizers in black market, according to Joint Director of Agriculture Shivamurthappa. He said that the Agriculture Department would form a vigilance team, which would become operational in the district from Saturday.

Mr. Shivamurthappa was speaking at the Karnataka Development Programme (KDP) review meeting held here on Friday. He said that that the Government had instructed the Agriculture Department to form vigilance committees in the wake of complaints of sale of fertilizers in black market and illegal storage of huge quantity of fertilizers by some dealers.

If the vigilance teams trace and seize fertilizer stocked illegally, such fertilizers will be distributed among farmers, he said.

Giving details of the fertilizer situation in the district, Mr. Shivamurthappa noted that over 40,116 tonnes of fertilizers had already been distributed to farmers for the kharif season as against the total requirement of 1,21,345 tonnes. He added that 2,000 tonnes of IFFCO fertilizer was expected to be supplied to the district by June 18. “Another 1,200 tonnes of fertilizer was expected to be supplied to the district by June 21,” he said.

President of the Davangere Zilla Panchayath, Y. Ramappa, who chaired the meeting, said that it was unfair to distribute the fertilizers on quota basis. He said if farmers were not given sufficient fertilizers, the department would have to take the responsibility for the fall in crop yield.

Mr. Shivamurthappa clarified that it was owing to a gap between the demand of supply of fertilizers that the administration had taken the decision to allocate one quintal of fertilizers for an acre of land.

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