To strengthen farmers economically, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal has offered the traders of worldwide wholesale market to make the state as a base for their activities so that marketing of farming produce gets a fillip.
He assured them all support including infrastructure and mandi, and said that out of total 108 mandis in state, 54 has already been linked the E-Market (E-NAM) system.
Speaking as a Chief Guest in the Closing ceremony of two days 32nd World Conference of World Union of Wholesale Markets (WUWM) in Gurugram, the Chief Minister said that the atmosphere of Haryana is quite conducive to their marketing system as the state has a locational advantage.
The theme of the conference was ‘The Wholesale Markets in the Digital Era: Challenges and Opportunities’. Delegates from a total of 19 countries from five continents, Embassies and diplomatic officers from 16 countries and over 50 Indian delegates from different State Agricultural Marketing Boards of India participated in this conference.
The Chief Minister said that Haryana is developing huge Mandi in Gannaur over 545 acres of land which would be the biggest Mandi in Asia, bigger than Azadpur Mandi. He invited the participants of the World Conference to collaborate as traders in upcoming Gannaur Mandi. He assured them of all support and help from the state government.
Referring to E-Marketing system, Manohar Lal said that a system need to be developed to integrate the traditionally operating commission agents with this E-Marketing, so that their employment do not get affected.
He said it is difficult to access the volume of crop production of farmers as it depends on various factors like climate change, environment condition and natural calamities, therefore, special emphasis was being given on developing better marketing system so that farmers income is assured.
Union Minister of State for External Affairs, General (Retd.) V.K. Singh said that Haryana has been pioneer of the Green Revolution in the Country and now it is the 2nd largest producer of food grains, 7th in flower production and 10th in vegetables and fruits production in the country.
Haryana Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister, O.P. Dhankar stressed on the need of providing a platform of direct marketing to the farmers as on one hand it would provide fresh products to the consumers, and on the other, it would ensure remunerative prices to the producer or farmers.