Farmers urge Centre to supply required quantity of fertilisers to Karnataka

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Chamaras Malipatil, honorary president   of Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha.

Chamaras Malipatil, honorary president of Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha. | Photo Credit: File photo

Farmers successful Yadgir territory person urged the Union Government to instrumentality contiguous enactment to proviso the required quantity of fertiliser to Karnataka to conscionable request for the coming kharif season.

Addressing a property league successful Raichur connected May 19, Chamaras Malipatil, honorary president of Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha, said that Karnataka’s Agriculture Minister N. Chaluvarayaswamy had said that the State volition look a shortage of 38,000 metric tonnes of fertiliser, arsenic the Union Government had not supplied fertilisers based connected the State’s request owing to the West Asia crisis.

“The Minister’s connection connected fertiliser shortage has created interest among farmers, and mightiness interaction accumulation adversely. Therefore, the Union Government should instantly instrumentality enactment and proviso fertiliser arsenic per the State’s demand,” Mr. Malipatil urged.

He said that the prices of fertilisers and chemicals person been increased. He urged the Union and State governments to enactment collectively to trim the prices, and besides instrumentality strict enactment against the amerciable merchantability of fertilisers.

“The Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha volition motorboat a protestation if its demands are not accepted astatine the earliest,” helium said.

Among those contiguous were Devappa Naik, Mallappa Dinni, Prabhakar Patil, Budayya Swamy and Govind Naik.

Published - May 20, 2026 10:38 americium IST

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