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The Andhra Pradesh authorities connected Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Noida-based agri enterprise, Ace Agri Business Private Limited, to fortify Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) successful the State and grow their selling network.
The statement was formalised successful the beingness of Andhra Pradesh Industries, Commerce and Food Processing Minister T.G. Bharath, who said the inaugural would assistance organise husbandman shaper groups and supply them with improved entree to nationalist and planetary markets.
The partnership, entered into by the Andhra Pradesh Food Processing Society and Ace Agri Business Private Limited, was aimed astatine enhancing marketplace linkages, establishing nutrient processing units, promoting value-added cultivation products, and providing grooming programmes for farmers.
Mr. Bharath said the collaboration would peculiarly absorption connected high-value crops specified arsenic cocoa, coffee, coconut, adust chilli, turmeric and pepper. Dedicated selling networks would beryllium developed done FPOs to amended marketplace entree and returns for growers of these crops, helium added.
The Minister said the inaugural was expected to make amended opportunities for worth summation and processing, enabling farmers to unafraid improved incomes portion enhancing the State’s nutrient processing ecosystem.
The programme was attended by Principal Secretary (Food Processing) Chiranjeev Choudhary, Industries and Commerce Secretary Yuvaraj, Food Processing Society Chief Executive Officer Shekhar Babu Geddam, APIIC Managing Director Dinesh Kumar, and Ace Agri Business CEO Triveni Sati.
