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Award for SKM Animal Feeds

Staff Reporter

ACHIEVEMENT: M. Chandrasekar, managing director SKM Animals Feeds Ltd, Erode, is receiving the National Productivity Award from Union Minister of State for Agriculture Dr. Akilesh Prasad Singh (middle). C. Shymala Sharmili, director of the firm, is a lso in the picture.

ERODE: SKM Animal Feeds and Foods (India) Ltd. here received the National Productivity Award for 2005-2006 at a function in New Delhi recently.

To improve the rural economy and develop productivity the Union Government started the National Productivity Council in 1958.

Since 1982 the council is presenting National Awards every year to recognise the outstanding achievements made in agricultural and agro-based industries, based on the quantum of production, quality and turnover of the firm.

For 2005-2006, under the agricultural sector in the Animal Feed Processing Unit category, SKM Animal Feeds and Foods (India) Ltd. has bagged the award for producing 1.45 lakh tonnes of cattle feed and 80 tonnes of poultry feed.

Union Minister of State for Agriculture Akilesh Prasad Singh presented the award to managing director M. Chandrasekar and director C. Shymala Sharmili of the firm at a function in New Delhi.

Director general of National Productivity Council N.A. Viswanath and deputy director Rajesh Sind were also present.

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