First time in the history of Jharkhand this kind of a mega Global Agriculture and Food Summit is being organised, said Agriculture Secretary Pooja Singhal on Tuesday.
Addressing a joint Press Conference organised by Agriculture Secretary Pooja Singhal, Industry Secretary K Ravi Kumar, Ranchi Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Anish Gupta and Ranchi Deputy Commissioner (DC) Rai Mahimpet Rey, Singhal further said Union Minister for Agriculture Radha Mohan Singh will inaugurate the summit to be held at Khelagaon in Ranchi on November 29 and 30. The State Governor Draupadi Murmu would be the chief guest of the valedictory session, added Singhal.
Revealing the objective of the mega event Singhal said, “To provide a platform to all stakeholders of agri ecosystem to showcase the vast agriculture and food processing potential of Jharkhand and simultaneously network with policy makers, agri equipment manufacturers, academicians, agri startups, agri ecosystem companies.”
Elaborating about the details of the summit the Secretary said, “After the inaugural session on first day of the event in the second half four sectoral seminars will be held on various themes such as agricultural equipments and organic farming. One each sectoral seminar will be held by China and Israel. On the second day of the event the delegation of World Bank will discuss with CM Raghubar Das and government official on the various issues related to the industry.
It will be highly technical meeting, she said. There will be pavilions for various district of the state and simultaneously for participating countries inside the venue and there will be a large exhibition for equipments and machineries, she added.
Singhal said, “Till now as many as 1,800 delegates have already registered. The delegates from five partner countries including Israel, China, Philippines, Tunisia and Mongolia will come to take part in the event.
One another country- Morocco will be the focused countries. In this event 10,000 farmers would be participating including those farmers who were sent to Isreal. The farmers got invitation on the basis of distance from the venue.
The first 5000 farmers would reach on Wednesday who belong to remote areas from the venue and next 5000 will come on the inaugural day of the event. The department has made arrangements of their food and lodging.”
Addressing the gathering Industry Secretary K Ravi Kumar said, “Around 50 big companies in the field of food processing like Dabur, ITC, MTR etc have confirmed to join the programme. The CEO of Patanjali has also confirmed that he will join the programme.”
Speaking on the occasion the SSP said to provide better security arrangements to the visitors the police department have constituted a roadmap. Visitors cannot enter the venue with any unnecessary belongings. A traffic plan will be comprised for safe arrival of visitors.”
Ranchi DC said, “All the visitors will get entry pass.
Three kinds of entry passes will be issued- Red, Green and Pink. The VIPs will get Red card, farmers and media persons will get Green card and Bus drivers and other people will get pink cards.”