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In a large boost to sericulture farmers of Maharashtra and Karnataka, the Solapur Division of Central Railway has commenced nonstop proscription of silk cocoons from Pandharpur and Kalaburagi to Ramanagara, Asia’s largest silk cocoon market.
The service, which began connected November 27, marks a important logistics breakthrough by providing farmers with a faster, cheaper and much reliable way to the country’s premier silk trading hub.
According to a property merchandise issued by the Solapur Division connected Friday, the inaugural is the effect of sustained efforts by the Division’s Business Development Unit, which has been moving to link farmers straight to distant markets.
Although Pandharpur and Solapur were already linked to Ramanagaram done the Pandharpur–Mysuru Gol Gumbaz Express (Train No. 16536) and the Bagalkot–Mysuru Basava Express (Train No. 17308), silk cocoons could not earlier beryllium booked due to the fact that these trains halted astatine Ramanagaram for little than 5 minutes. This made loading and unloading difficult.
To code the issue, Central Railway and South Western Railway undertook a associated effort. While Central Railway streamlined loading arrangements, South Western Railway reworked the unloading processes. As a effect of this coordinated initiative, the nonstop booking of silk cocoons to Ramanagaram has been enabled for the archetypal time.
Farmers instantly utilised the caller facility. On the precise archetypal day, a radical of sericulture farmers from Pandharpur booked 38 bags of silk cocoons weighing 1,500 kg. Rail transport costs them little than ₹5 per kg, making it much than 30% cheaper than roadworthy transport, too offering faster transportation and nonstop marketplace access. Officials noted that the work volition present payment farmers crossed Pandharpur, Solapur and Kalaburagi by reducing logistics costs and eliminating middlemen.
The property merchandise emphasised that this accomplishment is simply a nonstop result of the Amrit Samvad stakeholder enactment programmes held precocious successful Pandharpur and Kalaburagi, wherever railway officials received inputs straight from users and addressed operational challenges quickly.
The Solapur Division, which caters to a large fruit-growing portion and respective sweetener industries, reaffirmed its committedness to expanding agriculture-based freight services and contributing to determination economical maturation done farmer-friendly railway initiatives.
Train No. 16536 Gol Gumbaz Express, a regular service, departs from Pandharpur astatine 1 p.m. and from Solapur astatine 3.30 p.m. towards Ramanagaram. Similarly, Train No. 17308 Basava Express operates daily, leaving Solapur astatine 7.30 p.m. and Kalaburagi astatine 9.15 p.m., providing accordant connectivity for silk cocoon transport.
The Solapur Division has appealed to silk-cocoon-producing farmers crossed the portion to instrumentality vantage of the regular railway services to entree the Ramanagaram marketplace directly.
