Commodity trading
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, December 06 2013 :
Sensitisation programme on Commodity Trading was held at ICAR Manipur centre today under the aegis of Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Imphal West under the sponsorship of NABARD.
Altogether, 25 members from different farmers' clubs and NGOs attended the programme.
Chief guest of the function Dr N Prakash, Joint Director, ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region, Manipur Centre stated that agriculture commodities like ginger, turmeric, rice etc produced in Manipur are not so far traded successfully with the agents of other States due to bad road connectivity and other factors.
He stressed that in such situation e-trading could be a alternative option.
Khaba Paonamcha, Technical Director of Lamjing Finance Consultancy Ltd and Kh Hera Singh, Subject Matter Specialist (Agril Engineering) were the resource persons, a statement said.