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Bangalore: Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said on Saturday that top soil had been washed away in the floods in parts of some districts in the State according to information received from the Karnataka Government. He was speaking to presspersons after inaugurating the state-of-the-art semen station at the Central Frozen Semen Production and Training Institute at Hesarghatta. Mr. Pawar said that a delegation led by president of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee R.V. Deshpande met him recently and apprised him of top soil erosion in the flood-affected parts of the State. “We will constitute a committee of experts to give suggestions to the State Government. We are in the process of short-listing soil experts to examine the situation. We will also inform the Planning Commission about the suggestions made by the committee,” he said. The Union Minister said that credit facilities for purchase of seeds would be extended to farmers in drought and flood-affected areas of the country. The country was facing a shortage of sugar and pulses. “This is not new. For the past 10 years, we have been importing sugar and pulses. We will overcome it. It is a temporary situation because of the gap between domestic production and requirement,” he added. He said that the area under rabi cultivation had increased in the country. “September and October saw good rains and most reservoirs were full. Kharif production was a loss, which resulted in shortage of wheat, rice, pulses, oilseeds and sugarcane. However, the rabi crop is promising.” Later, Union Minister of Law and Justice Veerappa Moily, while maintaining that one cannot interfere in BJP’s issues, said that BJP Ministers should have taken up flood relief activities in earnest instead of trying to bring the State Government down.
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