Manchi Srinivasa Achar (74), rapid earlier-president of All-India Areca Growers’ Affiliation (AIAGA), handed absent on Saturday. He is survived by his wife, son and daughter.
A indigenous of Manchi village in Bantwal taluk of Dakshina Kannada district, Achar was also the editor and publisher of the farm-regular Adike Patrike. He was the president of Farmer Very first Rely on. The rely on has been publishing Adike Patrike due to the fact 3 many years.
Condoling his dying, the AIAGA president Kinila Ashok and the Basic Secretary Mahesh Puchchappady claimed that Achar was lively in the operates associated to welfare of arecanut sector. He also took lively section in the agri-equipment reasonable at Puttur in Dakshina Kannada district two decades back.
SR Satishchandra, president of Campco (Central Arecanut and Cocoa Marketing and Processing Cooperative) Ltd, claimed that Achar, who had engineering qualifications, had contributed immensely for arecanut sector as properly. His contributions in organising agri equipment reasonable at Puttur and teaching programmes in arecanut tree climbing are noteworthy, he claimed.
Achar was a trustee of ARDF (Arecanut Study and Development Basis) and an lively member of Campco also, he claimed.