Mission Organic Value Chain Development- North East Region phase-III under the supervision of the Department of Agriculture, Nagaland and the service provider, Green Caravan held a “training of farmers on Post Harvest Management and Managerial Training of FPCs, BoDs and CEOs, Book keeping and Accounting” at Hotel Saramati, Dimapur on Wednesday.
The training session and workshop was chaired by Manen Ozukum, project coordinator of TGC.
Deputy director (Organic), Dr. James Chawang was the resource person for the training where he shared guidelines of the programme and the various subsidies available within the MOVCD-NER scheme.
He emphasized the farmers to cultivate high value crops with marketing strategies.
Dr. James further informed the farmers that FPC can avail 75 percent subsidy for integrated processing unit, integrated pack house, cold room, refrigerated van and 50% subsidy for purchase of transportation vehicles.
Chairman of The Green Caravan, service provider for MOVCD-NER, Richard Belho also gave his insights on the importance of organic farming and lessening dependence on machines because once the machines stop working, production comes to a halt.
Under MOVCD-NER, two FPCs under Dimapur have been formed namely Dimapur Organic Producer Company Limited and Kana Organic Producer Company Limited.