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Guwahati hosts business summit on edible oils

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The union agri minister emphasised on a special package and assistance for NE states that is likely to change the socio-economic status of the farmers

National Mission on Edible Oil- Oil Palm Business Summit for the North Eastern States was held in Guwahati. The conference began under the chairmanship of the Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar with the watering of the oil palm plant and showcasing of a film on an oil palm plantation.

 

Tomar emphasised playing an equal role in the development of the crop and assured to make major investments for seed nurseries, drip irrigation, technical back up, set of mills, purchase centres and training of farmers. Special package and assistance for NE states will change the socio-economic status of the farmers and will open employment opportunities in the established oil palm mills along with infrastructure development, said the minister.

 

Tomar further informed that the Mission with a total outlay of Rs 11040 crore will bring an additional area of 6.5 lakh hectares under oil palm plantation with 3.28 lakh hectares in the North-Eastern states and 3.22 in the Rest of India in next five years.

 

Certificates for FPOs formed by NABARD were distributed and an MOU was signed with ABPRL and Numaligarh Refinery to establish the first-of-its-kind biorefinery in India to produce renewable green fuel bioethanol.

 

Books titled Glimpses of NMEO-Oil Palm in NE States by Oilseeds Division, DA&FW and Improved Management Practices of the Oil Palm Cultivation in NE States by ICAR-IIOPR and Assessment Report were released. 

 

Oil palm players, viz Godrej Agrovet, Ruchi Soya, Shivaisis and 3 F oil palm were present for the Summit. 3 F oil palm and Ruchi Soya have committed to setting up mills in Arunachal Pradesh over the next year. Ruchi Soya will also set up an oil palm mill in Mizoram. 3 F oil palm mentioned they would invest around Rs 1200 crores. 

 

Union MoS of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Kailash Choudhary and Sobha Karandlaje, MoS, DoNER BL Verma and Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh Pema Khandu attended the National Summit.

 

Minister of Agriculture, Sikkim Loknath Sharma, Chief Secretary, Government of Assam JishnuBarua, Chief Secretary, Government of Arunachal Pradesh Naresh Kumar, Principal Secretaries of the states, Shubha Thakur, Joint Secretary, GoI were present.

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