Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, December 30 2008:
AN OUTLET centre for the Eramdam Marketing and Investment Promotion Agency, promoting locality produce agro-based products produced and other home make production by mostly self help groups, open yesterday at New Checkon .
Well wishers and those interested in promotion of the locally produce goods converged at the newly opened centre and buy the goods of their choice as a part of moral supports to the initiative of the Eramdam Marketing and Investment Promotion Agency.
Special gifts were also presented to the best customers who also extended moral supports to the promotion of the locally produced goods.
Talking to this reporter, the managing director of the agency, Kh Surendrakumar said that the agency based at his home at Singjamei Kshetri Leikai was established in 2004 and has been working for the promotion homely produce goods of the state.
The centre is doing only the marketing as a part of promotion of the goods by sending out mobile salesmen mostly women.
A total of 60 salesmen are currently working in the agency and going door to door for selling the goods which self groups deposited with the agency, he said.
During the last four years service, the agency has promoted and provided markets for the state based industries like the Kangla Food etc.
and currently trying to find market of different around 66 items of agro-based products produced by various self help groups, he said.