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More than 4,500 farmers have taken up organic farming on 6,240 hectares of land in Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Chikmagaluru districts of Karnataka, according to H Kempe Gowda, Joint Director, Department of Agriculture, Dakshina Kannada district.
Delivering the inaugural address at the ‘organic fair’, jointly organised by the Department of Agriculture and Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat in Mangaluru on Tuesday, he said that around 4,500 organic farmers from these three districts have formed a federation. This federation includes 44 organic cooperatives.
He said that the Karnataka State Organic Certification Agency (KSOCA) has taken up the task of providing certification for organic farming in these districts.
Gowda said that 14 organic farmers’ federations have been set up in Karnataka on the lines of Karnataka Milk Federation.
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