The Hindu Business Line : TN plans 3 terminal markets for farm produce

Better deal for farmers: (From left) The Chief Executive Officer, Tamil Nadu State Agriculture Marketing Board, Mr Atul Anand; the Tamil Nadu Agriculture Minister, Mr Veerapandi S. Arumugam and the Immediate Past Chairman, CII Erode, Mr P.C.Duraisamy, in Chennai on Friday.

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Chennai, July 24 The Tamil Nadu State Agriculture Marketing Board will be setting up three terminal markets to support farmers sell agriculture produce, according to the Board’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr Atul Anand.

Addressing a conference on Agro Food Processing Technologies organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry, he said that the terminal markets would come up in Chennai, Madurai and Coimbatore. These will be with the support of Central Government subsidies.

Terminal markets are aimed at bringing the farmers closer to the markets to help them get better prices.

These markets will have modern infrastructure for transport and storage of produce.

The State Government has set up 143 direct marketing centres and 22 of these centres have cold storage facilities. Five more cold stores are to come up with private investment on land allocated by the Government, he said.

Mr P. C. Duraisamy, Managing Director, Sakthi Masala Pvt Ltd, and immediate Past Chairman, CII Erode Office, said that the post-harvest processing facilities for agriculture products was an immediate need in the backdrop huge wastage of produce. Estimates peg the losses at about Rs 5,000 crore a year in Tamil Nadu.

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