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CII – Govt of Rajasthan jointly organised Buyer Seller Meet of Agriculture commodity
Jul 15, 2015

Farmers produce quality products  they can get good prices, -Saini

·         The country's well-known buyers of the farmers interviewed, and improve the production advice

·         CII & Govt of Rajasthan organized at the initiative of the Centre, some 250 farmers took part in the country's top corporate executives, businessmen visited

·         Agro Keventer Rajasthan will install two units

Jaipur, July 15, 2015. Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Government of Rajasthan here today organised Agri Commodities based Buyer Seller Meet at Durgapura State Agricultural Management Institute. State Agriculture Minister Shri Parbhulal Saini, was the Chief Guest and inaugurated the meet. On this occasion CII Rajasthan State Council Chairman Shri Suresh Poddar,  Director and Head of State, Mr. Nitin Gupta, Administrator Rajasthan State Agricultural Marketing Board Shri Dinesh  Yadav, CII National Committee Co-Chairman and Managing Director of the Food and Agriculture Keventer Mr. Mayank Jalan, Secretary and Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr Kuldeep Ranka Rajasthan government and other officials were present. Director General of  the National Institute of Agricultural Management Mrs. Irina Garg, also addressed the meet.

Mr Suresh Poddar, Chairman informed that commodities like cumin, garlic, Plantago ovata, maize, oilseeds, spices, millet, mustard medicinal plants including Aloe vera and nearly fourteen commodity producers, 250 farmers are participating. He expressed regret at the fact that the country in 2004-05, contributing 19 percent of the agricultural products was down 13 percent in the year 2014.

CII National Committee of the Food and Agriculture, Co-Chairman and Managing Director,  Keventer  Mr. Mayank Jalan, said in his speech urging the country to remove poverty would enable our farmers, if our farmers is self sustainable, then poverty will be away. He also emphasized on development agriculture with food processing.

Director and Head of  State, Mr. Nitin Gupta informed about the program that after the Inaugural Session two sessions, one on maret Linkage and one on buyer seller meet was held through which one to one interaction of farmers with buyers was held through which we tried to connect farmers to the industry.

On this occasion, during his address the Rajasthan Agriculture Minister Prabhulal Saini shared that Rajasthan State is progressive towards agriculture produce but due to the lack of available resources in some areas is affecting the rate of growth.  Thus there is a use of holding these sorts of meangful discussions. He thanked CII for taking up this meaningful initiative with State Government. In addition to it He shared that we should certainly give more stress on quality produce in medicinal plants.

He said, Rajasthan is leading in production of sesame, alashi or lincid, Plantago ovate (Isabgole) but it is very unfortunate that still we don’t have any processing units and system in the state. Mr. Saini said, our government, especially the Chief Minister Mrs. Vasnudhara Raje is highly concerned about the interests of farmers and the efforts in this direction. He said that with the expansion in agriculture, farmers will emphasize on the cultivation of medicinal plants. He informed that the farmers should focus on growing medicinal plants of good quality along with traditional crops. He shared that agricultural marketing, packaging, greading and value addition will be in priority. He informed that the government is developing 20 specialized markets where there stemming crop would ease.

In BOX

Keventer will establish Agro and dairy  processing Units in the state

On this occasion, CII National Committee of the Food and Agriculture, Co-Chairman and Managing Director, Keventer  Mr. Mayank Jalan from Kolkata said the Jalan family is associated with Rajasthan since long time and we want to develop agriculture in Rajasthan  Rajasthan is good in agriculture produce but is lacking in processing of these produce. He announced for the coming two years and his group will establish a Processing Plant and dairy plant in Rajasthan. This will receive a direct benefit to the farmers as well as thousands of jobs will be created.

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