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Over 20 farmers of Namakkal territory received predisposition connected banana fibre and worth summation with a presumption to beforehand entrepreneurship among marginalised communities, during a three-day grooming programme organised by ICAR–National Research Centre for Banana (NRCB) nether the auspices of the Ainthinai Project of the State Directorate of Tribal Welfare recently.
T. Damodharan, director, ICAR-Central Institute of Sub-tropical Horticulture, emphasised the request for branding and creating profitable businesses from processed horticultural commodities. The institute was acceptable to bring fruits similar guava, jamun, and mango into the processing clump and to supply planting worldly to tribal farmers utilizing retail outlets meant for merchantability of banana products.
R. Selvarajan, director, NRCB, said the store was a livelihood enhancement programme aimed astatine improving the socio-economic presumption of 200 Adi Dravidars each, belonging to Namakkal and Tiruppattur districts, including a important fig of women.
The December 22-24 programme was held successful coordination with the Vivekananda Trust and exposed participants to hands-on training, exertion transfer, endeavor incubation, and sustained handholding.
The involution is expected to make an estimated further income of ₹1,50,000-₹2,50,000 per beneficiary per year, depending connected merchandise mix, standard of operation, and marketplace link, thereby creating sustainable and scalable agrarian enterprises.
