Educate farmers on availability of agricultural inputs: Minister

Mysore/Mysuru: With the monsoon having set in, Agriculture Minister B.C. Patil held a review meeting on the district’s preparedness for kharif season, at the Zilla Panchayat (ZP) Hall here yesterday.

Soon as the meeting began, the Minister sought inputs on stocks of agricultural inputs such as seeds, fertilisers etc., from the Department officials and questioned them on reports that the district was facing shortage of sowing seeds.