Agriculture Minister N. Cheluvarayaswamy on Tuesday instructed officials concerned to ensure that there is no shortage of sowing seeds and fertilisers for khariff season.
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The Minister, who held the first review meeting of Agriculture Department, told the officials that sowing was expected to be brisk as there was no shortfall in pre-monsoon rains when compared to the normal average.
He said the State had set a target of sowing 82.35 lakh hectares of land for khariff. Similarly, the pre-monsoon sowing had seen a progress of 84% so far with 2.48 lakh hectares of land being sown far as against the target of 2.95 lakh hectares, he noted.
The State had a stock of 7.85 lakh quintal of sowing seeds as against the demand for 5.54 lakh qunital, the officials told the Minister. Similarly, there was no shortage of fertilisers, the officials told him.