Udupi: Dattatreya Patkar Bantakal conferred Top Farmer Award
By B Pundalika Marate
Bellevision Media Network
Udupi, 01 Jul 2017: NRI engineer progressive dairy farmer Dattatreya Patkar was conferred Taluk Top Farmer Award, 2016 – 17, by district farming department, during the function held at Shirva parish hall, near here, on Thursday, Jun 29.
The state Top Farmer Award recipient of 2016 – 17, Raghavendra Nayak Shirva was also felicitated on the same occasion.
Kaup MLA and former Karnataka minister Vinayakumar Sorake, Shirva parish priest Fr Stany Tauro, ZP member and Lions Club – Belman president Wilson Rodrigues, Shirva gram panchayat vice president Devdas Nayak, ZP member Shilpa G Suvarna, district farming assistant director Mohanraj, farming joint director Chandrashekar Naik, Ignatius D’Souza Shirva, farming and industries steering Committee president Sasikant Pudubidri and department officers were present.