The GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology (GBPUAT) is lending final touches to the 107th Kisan Mela to be held here from March 3 to 6. The university’s event coordinator SK Bansal informed that the registration of commercial firms for setting up stalls in the fair has been started.
A number of firms have started registering to set up stalls for selling varied products from Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Chhattisgarh, Maharasthra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and other states. Information will be provided about various products and aspects including an array of farm machinery, agricultural chemicals, medicinal plant cultivation and the same will also be offered for sale in the Kisan Mela.
In addition to this, firms selling other products like handicrafts, village industry products, processed food items, information technology items, domestic products, solar energy powered items will also be setting up stalls in the exhibition.
Various banks, research institutes related to agriculture, publishers and other governmental and private organisations will also participate in the event informing the visitors about their schemes, achievements and products, said Bansal.The event coordinator further informed that this famous Kisan Mela will be held at its old venue- the Gandhi Park. Preparations for the event are underway and various committees formed for this purpose are busy expediting their respective works, he added.