Source: Hueiyen News Service
New Delhi, December 10 2009:
Artisans and entrepreneurs from northeastern states exhibited their work - clothes, bamboo and cane artifacts, artificial flowers and much more in the recently concluded India International Trade Fair (IITF)- 2009, which was held in the national capital.
Featuring nearly 7,500 exhibitors from India and abroad, the IITF is in itself a unique show, in which they got an opportunity to make new business deals and directly sell products to customers across the country.
"Northeast is little bit isolated by other bigger states because we are far away, culture difference, racial difference.
So, that way having together we finally know that we are the same.
So, it helps in the integrity of the nation," said Apam Ragui, Nodal Officer, IITF- 09 Manipur Pavilion.
Lulun Toshing, an artisan from Manipur, said: "There's lot of opportunities and its great to here different responses.