Port Blair, Nov 24: ICAR-CIARI in association with CCS-National Institute of Agricultural Marketing, Jaipur is conducting a three-day Banner Program on “New Dimensions in Agricultural Marketing: Focus Sector-Marketing of Organic Produce” from 27 to 29 November 2019 in its Garacharma Campus. Dr. B. Gangaiah, Director (Acting) will be the chief guest and inaugurate the programme at 10.00 AM on 27.11.2019 in T.R. Dutta Conference Hall. Around 25 Middle level officials of Development Departments viz. Agriculture, Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, National Cooperative Union of India; FPO officials, local agripreneurs and other related departments involved in agricultural marketing will be the participants.
During the programme, faculty of NIAM Jaipur, MANAGE Hyderabad, CIARI and its KVK will deliberate upon recent agricultural reforms viz. Agriculture Produce Marketing and Livestock Act 2017, AGMARK Grades and Standards, Model Contract Farming Act 2018 and Warehouse Development and Regulation Act; flagship programmes viz.Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana and Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana; and issues related to challenges in value chain and marketing strategies of organic produce, market linkage through FPO, critical technologies for enhancing profitability in organic farming and NPOF/PGS Certification in organic farming followed by visit to agri-enterprises, organic farms and climate resilient Integrated Farming Systems across South Andaman. The highlight of the programme will be sharing of experience by the participants on the marketing perspective of organic produce.
Dr. S.K. Zamir Ahmed, Principal Scientist and Incharge Social Science Section, CIARI and Shri Sathyendra Kumar, Assistant Professor, NIAM are the Nodal Officers of the programme coordinated by Dr. R. Jaya Kumaravaradan and Shri K.R. Kiran, Scientists, CIARI; and facilitated by Dr. L.B. Singh, Headi/c, KVK South Andaman and Shri D. Karunakaran, Scientist, CIARI under the Chairmanship of Dr. B. Gangaiah, Director (Acting), CIARI.
