Agriculture Minister P. Prasad waters a jackfruit sapling whereas inaugurating a one-day capability constructing programme on packaging applied sciences in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday.
The State authorities intends to make use of packaging technology to ensure better prices for value-added farm products, Minister for Agriculture P. Prasad has mentioned.
The Minister was inaugurating a one-day capability constructing programme on packaging applied sciences right here on Monday after the Agriculture division inked a memorandum of understanding with the Indian Institute of Packaging (IIP), Mumbai, through the VAIGA expo on February 27.
Mr. Prasad mentioned that the Kerala Agri Business Company (KABCO), proposed by the division to speed up agribusiness programmes, will beginning functioning quickly. The one-day programme, ‘Packaging for Export of Spices, Agricultural and Food Processed Food products of Kerala State’, was the primary coaching session after the MoU was signed.
As a follow-up to the VAIGA 2023 meet held in Thiruvananthapuram, the Agriculture division deliberate to organise extra B2B meets for discovering markets for agricultural produce, Mr. Prasad mentioned. The plan was to make out there products value ₹100 crore out there this 12 months, he added.
He additionally reiterated the division’s intention to open VAIGA useful resource centres in all districts.
IIP joint director Babu Rao Guduri mentioned market-oriented packaging was the necessity of the hour. IIP will affiliate with the Agriculture division to switch the know-how to farmers, he mentioned. Agriculture division and NABARD officers, and farmer organisations attended the programme. George Sebastian, director, State Agricultural Management And Extension Training Institute (SAMETI), and R. Pon Kumar, deputy director, IIP, had been additionally current.
