President, SPARSH, the CSR wing of JK Paper Mills, Rayagada Madam Mamtaji Singhania inaugurated a rural mart in Rayagada and a solar micro irrigation project in Maudiguda, besides visiting a broom binding unit at Rivolkana. Nabard DGM PK Mohapatra was present.
Singhania and Mohapatra encouraged the SHG members to use Siali rope to bind broom, instead of plastic.
At Maudiguda, Singhania encouraged the farmers to cultivate the vegetables as per the market demand and assured the hand holding of SPARSH.
Mahapatra informed about the benefits available with Nabard for farmers. He also emphasised on production of various farm products in collaboration with SPARSH to increase their market potential.
The micro solar irrigation project at Maudiguda will cater to the irrigation need for 45 farmers of the village covering 26 acres of farm land. Similar project is planned to be replicated in 10 villages of Kolanara and Rayagada block.
The rural mart project at Rayagada will provide marketing platform to Maa Thakurani SHG, Bada Chandili. The project is in collaboration with Nabard.
She also visited a paper plate making unit, an individual enterprise supported by Bharatiya Yuva Shakti Trust(BYST) and encouraged the rural producers.