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With the diverseness successful its cultivation produce, Rajasthan is acceptable to go a planetary hub for agro-based industries and value-added products, offering immense concern imaginable successful nutrient processing, acold chains, and spice parks, Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma has said. This would springiness a caller impetus to occupation creation, Mr. Sharma said.
Mr. Sharma was addressing an investor meet in Hyderabad connected Friday (May 8, 2026) up of the Global Rajasthan Agritech Meet (GRAM)-2026 to beryllium organised successful Jaipur aboriginal this month. The State authorities was providing investors with a “favourable ecosystem” done transparent policies, precocious infrastructure, and an situation supporting concern and cultivation growth, helium said.
Representatives of the Rajasthani diaspora successful Telangana, including leaders from the Hyderabad section of the Rajasthan Foundation, and a ample fig of startup entrepreneurs and investors, attended the event. GRAM-2026 is scheduled to beryllium held present from May 23 to 25 with an expected information of 75,000 farmers.
Mr. Sharma praised the “lab to land” exemplary successful Hyderabad, which focuses connected translating technological probe into applicable applications, and said his authorities was replicating it for dryland agriculture, clime resilience, and agrarian transformation. “We mean to execute this exemplary with a greater vigour to span the spread betwixt workplace exertion and tract implementation,” helium said.
The Chief Minister affirmed that Rajasthan was rapidly moving beyond accepted agriculture towards a technology-driven, innovation-led and investment-enabled cultivation economy. He invited investors to research the opportunities disposable successful agritech, nutrient processing, dairy, integer agriculture, and cultivation infrastructure crossed the State.
“Rajasthan is establishing a beardown individuality among the country’s starring States successful the fields of agriculture, industry, innovation and investment,” Mr. Sharma said. In an effort to trim energy costs for farmers and summation cultivation production, implicit 65,000 star pump sets had been installed and subsidies exceeding ₹1,000 crore fixed for them, helium said.
Memorandums of Understanding worthy ₹200 crore were exchanged astatine the capitalist conscionable for the improvement of nutrient parks, effect processing facilities, and nutrient processing units astatine assorted locations. The lawsuit besides featured one-on-one concern meetings and interactions involving investors, manufacture representatives, and agritech experts.
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) Director-General Himanshu Pathak, FICCI National Agriculture Committee’s co-chairman Subroto Gees, Minister of State for Animal Husbandry Joraram Kumawat, and Minister of State for Cooperative Gautam Kumar Dak were among those contiguous astatine the event.
