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Emphasising the request for facilitating the export of section mangoes, MLA for Hubballi-Dharwad Central Mahesh Tenginakai has said officials should supply requisite accusation and handhold the farmers initially.
He inaugurated the Dharwad district-level ‘Mango Mela-2026’ organised with the taxable ‘Market and Value Addition’, jointly by Karnataka Agriculture Marketing Board, Karnatak Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI), Agriculture Marketing Department, Horticulture Department, G.S. Global Foundation and Dharwad territory medication astatine the Multipurpose Exhibition Centre connected APMC Yard astatine Amaragol successful Hubballi connected Saturday.
Expressing happiness implicit the assortment of mango taxon grown, the MLA nevertheless felt the request for extended consciousness for the mela. He suggested holding the mela successful a circumstantial period each twelvemonth with capable consciousness programmes.
Former MP I.G. Sanadi emphasised the request for radical to works much saplings and summation the greenish cover for their ain amended future.
KCCI president G.K. Adappagoudar said that the mango growers were not getting rightful prices for their output due to the fact that of middlemen. Such melas helped successful doing distant with middlemen, helium said, emphasising the request for holding akin melas astatine assorted places for the payment of the farmers and besides consumers.
Jishan Sirsane of G.S. Global Foundation had embarked connected a ngo of planting 30 lakh saplings crossed the globe and they planned to make 1.6 lakh jobs successful 14 districts.
Senior officials including K.H. Guruprasad, Ashiq Ali D.M. and others were present.
Varieties of mango were sold to the customers straight by the farmers astatine the mela.
