Commodity Futures Market training
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, January 21 2014 :
A two-day capacity building programme on 'Commodity Futures Market' organised by ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region Manipur Centre got underway at the Centre's Lamphelpat premises.
Speaking as the chief guest at the inauguration function of the training programme today, NABARD Manipur RO Deputy General Secretary VS Gupta noting importance of market for the farmer community to reap fruits of their toil in the fields prevailed upon the farmers to avail financial assistance being extended by NABARD for proper marketing of their products and help in the overall economic development of Manipur.
ICAR Manipur centre Joint Director Dr N Prakash in his address poin-ted out that farmers should be well acquainted with the prevailing market trend on how to market their produce for any sort of naivety on marketing would result in the middlemen exploiting them.
As resource persons of the first day's technical session, Bhuvaneswari S elaborated with video tutorial on 'Commodity Futures market', Th Motilal Singh on 'Basic concept related to commodity Futures Market and Commodity market regulatory structure', Dr Ram Singh on 'functioning of Futures Market - trading, clearing and settlement' and Dr Y Chakraborty on 'Risk Management - Hedging, Arbitrage and Speculation' .