The State government has set up web-based centres in Karnataka for a scientific study of farm input costs.
Karnataka Agriculture Price Commission chairman Dr Prakash Kammaradi said here on Wednesday that farm production costs varies with geography and a 10-member team had been formed to gather this information.
The team The team comprises officials, traders and farmers. Henceforth, such teams would work at ‘Production Cost and Market Information Centres.’
Kammaradi said that the web-based centres had been set up at the agricultural universities in Dharwad, Bengaluru and Raichur and they would be set up at two more varsities soon.
Replying to a question, he said that the State government alone can’t fix support price for farm produce and it could do so with the co-operation of the Centre.
Published 23 March 2016, 19:33 IST