Integrated logistics planning done to promote six horticulture crops in Andhra Pradesh

As portion of its efforts to pull investments into the Food Processing (FP) sector, the authorities has done an appraisal of the worth chain, marketplace linkages and infrastructure requirements of six horticulture crops, namely mango, banana, tomato, pomegranate, saccharine lime and papaya, successful bid to maximise the returns for farmers, thereby giving a boost to the economy.

This exercise, according to authoritative sources, is simply a portion of the Infrastructure & Investment Department’s integrated logistics planning, which is aimed astatine bringing down the logistics outgo from astir 14% to 8-9% of the GSDP.