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P. Ravikumar, Mandya MLA, connected Saturday urged farmers to marque effectual usage of irrigation facilities and instrumentality up commercialized harvest cultivation, stating that they should germinate from being accepted cultivators into cultivation entrepreneurs and occupation creators.
He was speaking aft inaugurating the two-day ‘Munnade Mandya Vision-2035’ Agricultural Entrepreneurship Session, Buyers-Sellers Meet, and Farmers’ Bazaar (R-Mart), organised jointly by Mandya First Circle, the Department of Agriculture, and the Bellada Nadu Farmers Producers Companies Federation.
Mr. Ravikumar said the league had been designed to equip farmers with skills successful processing, worth addition, marketing, and fiscal management, enabling them to determination beyond superior accumulation and found themselves arsenic palmy agri-entrepreneurs. He urged participants to marque afloat usage of the programme and research opportunities successful agribusiness.
On the improvement initiatives successful the constituency, the MLA said astir ₹1,500 crore had been invested successful upgrading Mandya city, colony roads crossed the territory had been repaired, and the Kempegowda Road task had been inaugurated 2 months ago. He added that ₹100 crore had been sanctioned for the city’s improvement and tenders had already been floated, expressing assurance that Mandya’s scenery would acquisition a large translation wrong six months.
Speaking connected the occasion, Jayaram Raipur said the programme aimed to promote farmers to utilise irrigation facilities for cultivating high-income commercialized crops and improving their economical prospects.
He emphasised that branding and merchandise prime were important for entrepreneurial success.
D. Muniraju, president of Bengaluru First Circle; C.M.R. Srinath, president of Kolar First Circle; entrepreneur Jayaram G. Kimmane; Agriculture Department Joint Director V.S. Ashok; First Circle president B. Shivalingayya, moving president Chandrashekhar, caput Karasawadi Mahadev, vice-president Puttaraju, Karnataka Sangha president Jayaprakash Gowda and officials from assorted departments were present.
