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A one-day method store was conducted connected Wednesday for members of women’s self-help groups (SHGs) successful Mandya to item the benefits of the Prime Minister Formalisation of Micro Food Processing Enterprise (PM-FME) scheme.
The store was inaugurated by Mandya Zilla Panchayat (ZP) CEO K.R. Nandini, who underlined the value of infusing worth summation to cultivation products done which agrarian women tin execute economical progress.
The store was organised to people International Rural Women’s Day successful relation with the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, Karnataka State Agricultural Produce Processing and Export Corporation, and the territory administration.
Ms. Nandni operated a instrumentality to extract groundnut lipid to people the inauguration and spoke connected the benefits of worth summation to cultivation products alternatively of selling them straight successful the market. Farm nutrient should acquisition processing, packaging, and branding, she said, and pointed retired that this leads to a emergence successful income of the farmers and the agrarian women.
The ZP CEO said that agrarian women were the backbone of agriculture and the workplace assemblage but empowerment cannot travel done carnal labour unsocial and requires adaptation to caller technologies.
She stated that agriculture tin beryllium turned into an endeavor that is profitable and suggested that successful the future, authorities should procure value-added nutrient products straight from women SHGs truthful arsenic to stimulate demand for the products.
Ashok, Joint Director of Agriculture, Mandya, said that the territory generated astir ₹2,000 crore by mode of turnover done agriculture, and added that this could summation to ₹6,000 crore successful lawsuit determination was worth summation to the produce.
Roopashree, Deputy Director of Horticulture, spoke connected apiary oregon beekeeping isolated from the request for different products for which the section would widen support. There were inputs connected carnal husbandry and fisheries, and officials spoke connected assorted authorities schemes that enactment SHGs and farmers successful this venture.
