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Odisha set to promote agro-entrepreneurship in aromatic culture
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SME Times News Bureau | 14 Jul, 2018
The Odisha government has decided to promote agro-entrepreneurship in
aromatic culture among farmers, an official said on Friday.
The
decision was taken at a high-level meeting chaired by Chief Secretary
Aditya Prasad Padhi and attended by Union Micro, Small and Medium
Enterprises (MSME) Secretary Arun Kumar Panda.
Panda assured all
technical and knowledge support from Fragrance and Flavour Development
Centre (FFDC), an autonomous institution working for development and
research in aroma industry.
It was decided that a pilot programme
would be initiated in Ganjam district for assessing the outcome. It was
targeted to start the first phase pilot programme from the month of
August 2018 involving around 400 farmers.
The programme would be
extended to other coastal and hilly regions of the state on the basis of
the outcomes from this pilot project.
The Chief Secretary
directed to provide appropriate support to the farmers right from
training to cultivation, distillation, quality assessment and marketing
linkage within easy access.
Padhi advised FFDC to install common facility centres for distillation and extraction of aroma juice from the crop.
Union MSME secretary advised starting with the aroma plants like vetiver, palmarosa, and kerwa.
He
said that marketing tie-up with industries would be made through the
support of FFDC under Ministry of MSME and CIMAP, the Central Institute
of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants.
Experts said that the income
from cultivation of one acre of palmarosa would be around Rs 35,000 and
the income from vetiver per acre would be around Rs 60,000.
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