Arunachal Pradesh Tax & Excise parliamentary secretary Tapuk Taku today exhorted Associated Chamber of Commerce & Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) to conduct a survey in the state to identify high production areas and find out sellers-buyers meeting points to help farmers to get remunerative prices for their produces.
He advocated to set up networking between national buyers through Arunachal Pradesh Horticultural Produce Marketing & Processing Board (APHPM&PB) to benefit the producers and expedite formation of North East Region Small Farmers Agribusiness Consortium.
Tapuk was addressing an awareness workshop of ASSOCHAM conducted in collaboration with Arunachal Chamber of Commerce & industries (ACCI) on "Linking Startup's and SME's in Food Processing with Government Schemes & Markets", here.
He said that Arunachal Pradesh carved a niche for itself in national food production with a new thrust to agriculture-horticulture sector and won Krishi Karman Commendation Award for four consecutive years.
"Arunachal is highest producer of kiwi in India with annual production of more than 4,500 tonne and the APHPM&PB was instrumental in producing kiwi wine while large size cardamom production, an initiative of National Youth Project, has not only made many farmers of Anjaw district located along China border, self-sufficient but is sold at double the rate in South Indian markets," he informed.
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