A week after in-charge and Animal Husbandry Minister Prabhu Chavan’s strict direction, officials of Agriculture department actively conducted raid on a shed and seized unregistered fertilizers and chemicals in Madiwaleshwar Nagar in Shahapur city on Friday.
Based on a tip-off, Agriculture officers with the help of police conducted a raid on the shed where they found unregistered fertilizers and pesticides stored in boxes which valued to ₹2.15 lakh.
After preliminary inquiry, it came to light that Balappa Chatrappa, 45, who is native of Lingsagur taluk in Raichur district had stored the chemicals and fertilizers unauthorizedly. He had brought these materials from an Agro Agency at Talikoti village in Vijayapur district to sell them to farmers, sources said.
