Mysore/Mysuru, March 3 -- Tobacco purchasing companies instructed to fix a price on the lines of Andhra Pradesh

Union Minister for Heavy Industries and Steel H.D. Kumaraswamy (HDK) has sought a report from Tobacco Board by tomorrow (Mar. 4), after holding discussions with tobacco products manufacturing companies on purchasing tobacco from the farmers at a fair and remunerative price.

He was chairing a meeting with the officials of Tobacco Board, at the meeting hall of Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) in city yesterday, over the auction of FCV tobacco at a rate benefiting the farmers.

Minister for Animal Husbandry and Sericulture K. Venkatesh, Mysuru-Kodagu MP Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar, MLAs G.D. Harish Gowda, ...