The Odisha Rural Development and Marketing Society (ORMAS) jointly with Odisha Livelihoods Mission (OLM) under the Panchayati Raj & Drinking Water Department would organise an exhibition-cum-sale event titled “State Level Mango Festival-2019” here from June 1 to 5.
Swayamprabha Mohanty, Additional Chief Executive Officer and Sujoy Kar, Deputy Director (Marketing), ORMAS have prepared a blueprint of the festival.
There are eight major mango producing districts in the State -- Angul, Dhenkanal, Rayagada, Mayurbhanj, Sambalpur, Balangir, Koraput and Gajapati.
The festival would create a ground for retail sale of mangoes at lucrative prices and profit for the farmers who used to sell mangoes at much lower rates to the intermediaries of bulk buyers and thereby lose the profit they deserve.
The festival would be held near the State Institute of Rural Development (SIRD) campus next to Stewart School nearby CRP Square.