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Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (MS)

Mangaluru, Apr 27: A team led by former MLA J R Lobo went to Merlapadavu near Neermarga on the outskirts of the city and bought organic produce of local farmers. More than 80 families are depended in this area only on agriculture.

The former MLA said, "According to the direction of D K Shivakumar, president of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC), the work of making the local produce reach the needy people is done by the party. This attempt was done in order to encourage the local farmers, who have grown the produce with hard work, though the environment in the district of Dakshina Kannada is not conducive for growing vegetables and also for the fact that the market was shifted to APMC at Baikampady which is quite far from Merlapadavu."

The local farmers also gave away various vegetables at cheap prices to the Congress workers thereby joining hands in the fight against coronavirus pandemic.

T K Sudheer, Vishwas Kumar Das, Prakash B Salian, Denis D'Silva, Krithin Kumar, Uday Kumar, Raghuraj Kadri, Rajesh Kadri, Samarth Bhat, Nagendra, Santhosha Neermarga and Leslie Rego were present on the occasion.

The organic vegetables that were bought by the Congress workers were distributed to White Doves, Snehalaya and Prashant Nivas orphanages in the city.