The Members of Parliament (MPs) from arecanut-growing regions in Karnataka and Kerala will take questions from farmers at ‘Kisan Samsath’ at Puttur in Dakshina Kannada district on January 24.
The ‘samsath’ is being held as part of the three-day ‘Agri Machinery Fair 2015’, jointly organised by Central Arecanut and Cocoa Marketing and Processing Cooperative (Campco) Ltd and the Arecanut Research and Development Foundation.
‘Agri Machinery Fair 2015’ will be conducted at Puttur from January 24 to 26.
Addressing presspersons in Mangaluru on Thursday, K Padmanabha, president of Campco, said that around 1,000 farmers from different districts of Karnataka and Kerala have already confirmed their participation for ‘samsath’. These farmers will ask questions on agriculture and other related issues to the MPs. The elected representatives would have to answer those queries, he said.
BS Yeddyurappa, Shimoga MP, will preside over the ‘Kisan Samsath’.
Nalin Kumar Kateel, Dakshina Kannada MP, Ananth Kumar Hegde, Uttara Kannada MP, Karunakaran P, Kasaragod MP, Shobha Karandlaje, Udupi-Chikmagaluru MP, Muddahanume Gowda, Tumkur MP, Pratap Simha, Mysore-Kodagu MP, and Chandrappa, Chitradurga MP, will participate in the ‘Samsath’ proceedings, he said.
Stating that this is the third edition of ‘Agri Machinery Fair’, Padmanabha said all the 240 stalls in the fair have already been booked. The second edition of ‘Agri Machinery Fair’, which was conducted in 2012, had 140 stalls, he said.
Considering the need to encourage the spirit of innovation among young students, the organisers have decided to give ‘Varanashi awards’ from this edition in the memory of late Varanashi Subraya Bhat, founder president of Campco.
Students of various engineering colleges in the region have sent around 50 projects on agricultural machineries for this award. Of them, two will be selected and awarded suitably, Padmanabha said.
A postal cover on Varanashi Subraya Bhat will also be released in the machinery fair, he said.
The organisers are expecting the participation of around four lakh people in the three-day event, he added.
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Published on January 22, 2015
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