The Coconut Development Board (CDB) will be organising a National Seminar on FPOs and Sustainable Coconut Development in Chhattisgarh on Saturday at Indira Gandhi Agriculture University (IGAU), Raipur.
State Agriculture Minister Brijmohan Agrawal will inaugurate the seminar and Dinesh Kashyap, MP, Bastar will preside over the programme.
Pramod Dubey, Mayor, Raipur and Mohan Markam, MlA, Kondagaon, will be the guests of honour in the function while Dr.S.K.Patil, Vice Chancellor, Indira Gandhi Agricultural University and Sunil Kumar Dubey, Additional Director, Department of Horticulture, Government of Chhattisgarh will deliver special address.
The inaugural session will be followed by technical session in which subject specialists will present papers on the topic. Coconut Farmers from different coconut growing areas of the country are expected to participate in the programme. The CDB promotes the formation of FPOs to strengthen unorganised coconut farmers of the country by providing them a common platform.