Chief Secretary Rajiv Gauba has stress the need of introducing e-marketing platform for agriculture and forest produces in Jharkhand. He while addressing a meeting organised by
NCDX e-market limited also termed it a prerequisite for ensuring proper and good return to the produces.
“Introducing e-marketing into the field of agriculture and forest produce is the need of the hour. Otherwise the produces would not get value of the produces in true sense. The prevailing scenario is also hampering growth of such produces from Jharkhand and stopping those to arrive at international stage,” said the Chief Secretary.
NCDEX e-Market limited’s advisor R Ramaseshan also underlined the importance of e-marketing in the changing world and said that for the improvement of the lives and livelihood of the farmers of the State Jharkhand needed to keep pace with others.
“This would help in improving standard of living of farm produces of the State. If e-marketing is started in Jharkhand it would develop madis and benefits of spot trading would to them. They can get prices of the agriculture and forest commodities online with all transparency and quality check,” said Ramaseshan.
He went ahead and suggested to develop two pilot locations for vegetables in the State. Food and Civil Supplies Secretary Vinay Kumar Chaubey, HRD Secretary Aradhana Patnaik and other senior officials from the Forest Department were present in the meeting.