Bantwal: 12-year-old school girl goes missing, case registered
Bantwal: Concerning the disappearance of a 12-year-old schoolgirl, a case has been registered at the Bantwal town police station.
The missing child has been identified as Prithvi (12), the daughter of Puttaraj, a resident of Hurudi village in Sakleshpur Taluk of Hassan district, it is learned.
Puttaraj had admitted his daughter into the Kalladka Sri Rama Primary School for her education. Prithvi was staying at their relative Rajappa’s house in Kalladka’s Amtoor and used to go to school from there.
On Wednesday, she had commuted to school in an auto rickshaw from her place of residence. Since the child did not come to school that day, however, the teachers called her residence and informed her guardians of her absence.
Her parents, who became worried that she was missing despite leaving home for school, have filed a complaint regarding her disappearance at the Bantwal town police station.
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India is the place for large-scale organic production, says Commerce Secretary
Nuremberg (PTI): India is the place for large-scale organic production and the country is keen to collaborate with the EU to strengthen this ecosystem to cater to rising demands, Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agrawal said here on Tuesday.
Agrawal also said that India's organic products exports have grown threefold over the last 10 years, and the government now aims to triple them again over the next five years.
"India is the place" to serve the world as a good organic food basket, he said, adding that India has 150.3 million hectares of agricultural land under cultivation.
He said that the organic ecosystem is growing very fast in the country, as today, 3 per cent of India's cultivation is organic.
In India, 4.7 million hectares of land is under organic cultivation, with 2.4 million farmers practising it, and it is only increasing by the day, he said.
The Secretary was speaking at the inauguration of Biofach 2026. About 100 exhibitors from 20 Indian states, including Assam, Meghalaya, and Kerala, are here to showcase their organic food products at the world's leading trade fair Biofach show (February 10-13).
He informed that India is emerging as a credible supplier of organic food, both within India and outside.
"I see this happening in a much faster manner. So if world needs the state for organic production, I think India is the place, and we like to work with all of you to see how we can improve the Indian organic food ecosystem to serve both the Indian rising demand within India and also the rising demand in two of our biggest markets," he said.
He called for creating credibility around organic foods. There is a need to ensure trust and credibility around the certification of these products.
India started with the national programme for organic production way back in 2001 and that was designed to adopt the international standards of organic goods.
"And now we are bringing in cooperatives in a big way," he said, adding that cooperatives can bring in and aggregate farmers to create good, viable organic ecosystem in various villages across the country.
