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AgroPolicy, Horticulture, Interaction, Trade

Nitin Gadkari, Union Road Transport and Highways Minister was addressing the Outreach Programme ‘Agriculture Produce and Vegetable Export Opportunities in Vidarbha’ organised by APEDA and Agrovision Foundation in Amravati.

There is a huge scope in increasing the export of agricultural produce such as fruits, flowers, vegetables from Vidarbha, but there is a need to adopt new technology and experimentation. Improving the quality of agricultural produce, fulfilling all safety criteria, good packaging is also essential. We have set export target of oranges from 500 Cr to 5,000 Cr in upcoming years with the help of organic farming of oranges and quality hybrids of oranges,” said Nitin Gadkari, Union Road Transport and Highways Minister. Gadkari was addressing the Outreach Programme ‘Agriculture Produce and Vegetable Export Opportunities in Vidarbha’ organised by APEDA and Agrovision Foundation at Rangoli Pearl in Amravati.

Gadkari said that all-out efforts will be made through ‘APEDA’ and ‘Agrovision’to increase exports from Vidarbha. Pravin Pote Patil, MLC,Tarun Bajaj, Director,  APEDA Members Anandrao Raut, Vibha Bhatia,  Dilip Ghosh, Ravi Barotkar, President of Agrovision Foundation, Manish Mondhe, Sridhar Thakare, Dinesh Suryavanshi and others were present.

Joint programme for increasing agricultural exports

 An agreement between ‘APEDA’ and Agrovision Foundation to implement a joint programme for increasing agricultural exports, was signed by Bajaj and Ravi Boratkar President of Agrovision Foundation on the occasion. Speaking further, Gadkari said that experimentation, adoption of new technology is necessary to increase agricultural exports in Vidarbha. It is necessary to increase the quality of the product for export. Good nurseries should be established everywhere, said Gadkari. He asserted the need for efforts to be made to start new and useful things like using drones for spraying fertilisers and medicines. Safety of products is considered an important parameter in the global market and if traces of pesticides are found in agricultural produce, the goods are rejected. Hence, it is necessary to increase the production and maintain the quality only during organic processing to avoid that, said Gadkari and thus advocated experiments to be done at various levels for that purpose.

Gadkari added that good orange nurseries have been developed in Vidarbha and asserted the need to develop more such nurseries. “An experiment is being done by bringing the best orange seedlings from countries like Spain and planting them. Branding is also taking place for the tasty tur dal, a speciality of saline belt,” Gadkari said.

Gadkari informed that a dry port has been started at Sindhi in Wardha district, which will speed up the process. Tarun Bajaj said that orange exports from Vidarbha are on the rise with Bangladesh now they are also exported to the United Arab Emirates. The country’s total export of agricultural products is Rs 4 lakh crore.

Nitin Gadkari, Union Road Transport and Highways

AgroPolicy, Biofuel industry, Sugar industry

Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister Road Transport and Highways was addressing the Sugar & Ethanol India Conference (SEIC) 2022 held in Mumbai.

Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari has given a clarion call to the sugar factories to make a shift to conversion of sugar into ethanol, in line with the realities of changing times and the needs of the nation. The Minister issued a warning to leaders of sugar and allied industries that if sugar production goes ahead as it does now, it will be harmful for the industry in times to come. Reminding them that as a country, we are rice-surplus, corn-surplus and sugar-surplus, Gadkari said that what is good for our future is to reduce production of sugar and increase production of ethanol.

The Minister was addressing the Sugar & Ethanol India Conference (SEIC) 2022 held in Mumbai. The conclave, organized by ChiniMandi, news and information portal for the sugar and allied industries, sought to bring together leading domestic & global industry experts to discuss the top challenges and risk response strategies in domestic and global sugar trade and the way forward to building a more innovative and sustainable Sugar & Ethanol sector in India.

The Minister explained how the economics of ethanol is superior to that of vehicles run by diesel or petrol. “We have issued advisory on flex engines; Toyota, Hundai and Suzuki have assured me that they will bring flex engines within six months. Recently, we launched pilot car run by green hydrogen. Toyota Chairman informed me that their car is flex – either 100 per cent petrol or 100 per cent ethanol and that Toyota cars of coming days will be run on hybrid electricity, which will generate 40 per cent electricity and run 60 per cent of the distance using 100 per cent ethanol. This economics will be highly advantageous in comparison to petrol.”

The Minister informed that Govt. of India has decided to open biofuel outlets for citizens to fill ethanol and that cars, scooters, motor cycles and rickshaws can be available on flex engine. “Prime Minister has inaugurated three ethanol pumps in Pune; however, no one has come so far to fill ethanol. However, Bajaj, TVS and Hero have launched motor cycles driven by flex engine; scooters and motor cycles are available on flex engines. They are ready to come up with auto rickshaws as well.”

The Minister exhorted all sugar factories who manufacture ethanol to open ethanol pumps in their factories and other areas. “This can bring in 100 per cent ethanol-run scooters, auto rickshaws and cars and thus increase ethanol consumption, reduce pollution, bring down imports and also provide jobs to people in villages.”

Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister Road Transport and

AgroPolicy, Agrotech, R&D

Panellists discuss ways to uplift the farmer community and urged the ministries for better policies in place

The last day of 12th Agrovision had a panel discussion on ‘Enhancing GDP and Farmers Income.’ The panel discussion had Narayan Tatu Rane, Minister For Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Nitin Gadkari, Chief Patron, Agrovision, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, G Chandrashekhar Aiyar, Economist, Senior Journalist, Policy Commentator with a passion for agriculture; Dr N Persuraman, Principal Scientist, MSSRF; Ajay Vir Jakhar, Chairman, Bharat Krishak Samaj; Dr Agyeya Tripathi, Finance Expert; Sujit Sahgal, author; Dr Ashish Paturkar, Vice-Chancellor, Maharashtra Animal and Fishery Sciences University (MAFSU), Nagpur; Devendra Parekh, Past President, Vidarbha Economic Development Council (VED); Girish Gandhi, Organiser, Agrovision; Krishan Bir Chaudhary, President, Bharatiya Krishak Samaj; Ajay Vir Jakhar, Chairman, Bharat Krishi Samaj and Ravi Boratkar, MD, MM Activ Sci-Tech Communications, Publisher, MMA publications and Chairperson, Agrovision Foundation and Milind Kokje, Chief Editor, Agrospectrum.

The session started with Gadkari discussing the challenges faced by the farmers in the Vidarbha region and how Government of India has been proactively finding solutions to help the farmer community. He mentioned ethanol-based fuel produced from sugarcane, the use of drones in farmlands and nano urea where the wastage of it will minimal.

Discussing the various opportunities in the agriculture sector with MSME Minister and Agriculture Minister, Gadkari added, “We need to work on preparing a policy on (use of) drones in the farm sector. Drones are related to agro and MSME can generate about 50 lakh jobs in the rural sector in one year. Besides, it will benefit farmers too.”

Ajay Vir Jakhar talked about the need for a modified agri policy in place that will be helpful for farmers. He urged the ministers for better coordination among all the stakeholders for the upliftment of the sector and developing the food system in the entire country.

Chandrasekhar talked about proper training mechanisms in the MSME sector, educational programmes in the food processing sector through a cluster approach in hedging for commodity price risk management. According to him, there should be a focus to reduce price volatility, on growing cereal pulses, need to relook at import-export policy and all stakeholders should work together. The government need to impose a duty on import, price risk management on MSME, provision on MSP and import-export policy, which is what Chandrasekhar mentioned at the event.

Tripathi mentioned about the need to upgrade agri entrepreneurship, promote FPOs. He urged the farmers to act as managers. Mentioning that though there are policies in place, there is a lack of implementation which the government needs to look into. Schemes are many but proper awareness is needed for the upliftment of the sector. Apart from this, he also mentioned setting up SDG goals.

Rane opined about how his ministry will look into the food processing sector, on how an increase in agri GDP is going to have a positive impact on farmers. He assured that his ministry will look into the farmer’s and hoped for positive outcomes for the sector.

Panellists discuss ways to uplift the farmer

AgroPolicy, Environment

Gadkari was speaking at the inaugural event of 12th Agrovision in Nagpur

Farmers should henceforth be called energy providers as they are the ones who can take the initiative to convert agri waste to produce LNG and CNG. This information was stated by Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister Road Transport and Highways during the inaugural event of 12th Agrovision, which is currently being held at Reshimbagh Ground in Nagpur.

Gadkari during his speech emphasised drawing a roadmap for future agri tech, knowledge sharing, entrepreneurship and successful practices. He talked about how farmers can transform themselves by conversion of knowledge to wealth, overcoming the challenges with the right solutions.

Gadkari talked about how 100 per cent bio-ethanol in two-wheelers and four-wheelers can lead to a sustainable environment and farmers getting benefitted from this initiative. For the same, production of flex engines will soon start in the country.

He emphasised on the production of nano urea to reduce imports, bio-ethanol from bamboo, ethanol-run cost-effective drones for agriculture, ethanol-based pumps and export of sugar to Brazil.

Gadkari also mentioned how Radio Agrovision and Krishi Kalyan TV is going to benefit farmers in the long run. He also opined about dairy innovation and agri export. 

He also mentioned cotton export to Bangladesh from Vidarbha to Haldia in West Bengal and then to Chittagong port, which will help cotton farmers in the long run.

Gadkari was speaking at the inaugural event

Agrotech, Interaction

The four-day event will see a congregation of 400 exhibitors and farmers from in and around Vidarbha region. 

12th Agrovision, India’s Premier Agri Summit, was launched at Reshimbagh ground in Nagpur. The four-day event from December 24-27, 2021 is witnessing a congregation of farmers, policymakers, stakeholders, scientists from different parts of Maharashtra and adjoining states.
 
Present on the occasion were Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Agriculture Minister, Nitin Gadkari, Chief patron Agrovision, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Sanjay Agarwal, Secretary, Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India, the Guest of Honour Dr Ashwath Narayan CN, Minister for Electronics, IT, BT and S&T Higher Education, Skill Development Entrepreneurship and Livelihood, Government of Karnataka, Chandrashekhar Bawankule, Former Minister of Energy, New & Renewable Energy, Govt of Maharashtra and Dr CD Mayee, Chairman-Advisory Council Agrovision, Ex-Chairman- ASRB (ICAR).

The event started with a lamp lighting ceremony by Tomar along with all the dignitaries. Ravi Boratkar, MD, MM Activ Sci-Tech Communications, Publisher, MMA publications and Chairperson, Agrovision Foundation, while welcoming the guests talked about Agrovision’s journey so far and how farmers are continuing to be benefitted from the successive events held so far.

Agarwal in his speech talked about the PM’s vision of enhancing farmers’ income, creating farmer’s database and utilising post-harvest DPR. Gadkari talked about how ethanol from sugarcane is going to be the future fuel in agri pumps and the transport sector replacing petrol and diesel. He emphasised ideating knowledge, entrepreneurship, successful practice and coming out with solutions for the farmer community.
 
The theme for this year’s event is ‘Transforming Agriculture through Technology Innovations.’

On December 25, 2021, a conference will be organised on dairy, its opportunities in the Vidarbha region.

The four-day event will see a congregation