While presiding over the Uttarakhand agriculture produce marketing board executive committee meeting at Krishi Bhawan in Dehradun on Tuesday, the State Agriculture Minister Subodh Uniyal asked the members of the committee to adopt new policy to provide better price of the agricultural produce of the farmers inhabiting the border, remote and rural areas of the State. He also stressed on a new technology being adopted and familiarize the farmers with it to help them get more for their produce. He also asked them to send a proposal for the merger of 71 UPNl employees, retrenched from Tarai Development Corporation (TDC), Pantnagar in APMC following legal procedure.
He asked the agriculture and horticulture departments to provide high quality saplings of fruit bearing trees to help the growers get better output. He also laid thrust on those engaged in producing fruits and vegetables in the hilly areas being motivated on self value and value addition. He stressed on grading too. He asked them to establish sub-mandis in Chamba and Narendranagar of Tehri district and establish processing units for Malta in Karnparayag of Pauri district. He asked them to do survey. He asked the agriculture department and UAPMB to sort out the petty issues to help the farmers get better return of their produce. He instructed the horticulture department to have better coordination between the farmers and APMB officials.
During the meeting, ACS Dr Ranbir Singh, agriculture director Gauri Shankar and Uttarakhand agriculture produce marketing committee (APMC) managing director Dheeraj Garbyal were among others present at the meeting.