Bid to improve agri marketing network

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha State Agricultural Marketing board on Tuesday signed a memorandum of agreement with International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, to facilitate implementation of agri-marketing network in the state.
The project aims at linking all 66 regulated market committees, 43 farmers’ markets, 76 municipal markets including 800 farmers producers organisations and women self-help groups. “Fruits and vegetables sector encounters many challenges. High variation in quality of products, lack of structured and scientific processing infrastructure are some of the challenges which need intervention,” said cooperation secretary Sanjeev Chadha. TNN