Commercial firms have started registering for the All India Kisan Mela and Agriculture Industry Exhibition organised by the GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology. This year the event will be held from October 4 to 7.
Director, Extension Education, GBPUAT, YPS Dabas said that firms set up stalls in the exhibition display various products including farm machinery, tractors, combined harvester, fertilizers, pesticides, cattle feed and veterinary products, medicinal plants, seeds and saplings among others. The firms inform the visitors about their products apart from selling these to farmers. Handicrafts, cottage industry products, processed food items, information technology products, automobiles, domestic products and solar powered equipments are also displayed in the exhibition. Various banks, agriculture related research institutes, publishers and various bodies from the Government and private sectors also set up their stalls during this event to publicise their services, schemes, products and achievements.
Products of the various research centres of the university like Rabi crop seeds, vegetable seeds, flower seeds and saplings and saplings of various fruit trees including mango, litchi, guava, lemon and papaya among others will also be available for sale during the event, informed Dabas.