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3 agriculture marketing complexes planned

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Storage facilities to come up at a cost of Rs. 39.50 lakh

Photo: K. Ganesan

CHECKING OUT:Collector C. Kamaraj watching the chemical process used to detect adulteration in food items in Madurai on Tuesday. —

MADURAI: The Agricultural Marketing and Agri-business Department would set up agriculture marketing centres in three places at a cost of Rs. 69 lakh each, Collector C. Kamaraj said.

Inaugurating a training programme for farmers on post-harvest processing of food grains here on Tuesday, he said that one each would come up at Kokkulam in Tirumangalam taluk, S. Kottaipatti in T. Kallupatti taluk and Avaniyapuram in Tirupparankundram taluk.

The marketing centres, under the Tamil Nadu Irrigated Agriculture Modernisation and Water bodies Restoration and Management (TN-IAMWARM) project, would help the farmers sell their produce directly without the help of middlemen and get additional price.

The centres would have storage facility, electronic weighing machine, gadget to measure moisture content in the grains, computer facility to know the price of various produce and showroom of agriculture inputs.

Besides, storage facilities would come up at Keezhakuyilkudi, Thumbakulam, Poochambpatti, Saptur, Kudiseri at a cost of Rs. 39.50 lakh.

The Collector asked the officials of all the eight departments involved in the IAMWARM project to interact with the farmers frequently and take all the schemes to them so that they can benefit out of them.

Mr. Kamaraj released a guide on technology on preservation, processing and value addition of food grains. The Chairman, Tamil Nadu Agriculture Marketing Board, K.P.T. Ganesan, received the first copy.

Good future

Mr. Ganesan, who had recently visited agricultural markets few countries including the Netherlands and France, said in the changing world scenario agriculture had a good future. India, with enormous natural resources, had a huge opportunity. Stating that farmers too had a great future, he wanted them to make use of all the Government schemes.

Ten complexes

Ten agricultural marketing complexes, at a cost of Rs. 1 crore each, were coming up in the State, he added.

Madurai District Agriculture Marketing Committee, Chairman, R. Ganesan, Joint Director (Agriculture), P. Sankaralingam, Deputy Director (Horticulture), Jeyakodi, Deputy Director (in-charge), Agriculture Marketing and Agri-Business, Murugan and Public Works Department Executive Engineer (Gundar Basin), S. Selvaraj, were among those who addressed the farmers.

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