The Hindu Business Line : Rural godowns on the cards

To help farmers process the agricultural produce and also stock them under safe conditions, drying yards and rural godowns will be constructed at nine places in the district, the Collector Mr D. Uthirakkumaran, has said. Presiding over an interface meeting of the entrepreneurs and agriculturists organised by the Agricultural Marketing and Agri Business Department at Tiruvappur near here recently, the collector said that the infrastructure would be provided under the World Bankaided `Irrigated Agriculture Modernisation and Water Resources Management' (IAMWARM) project being implemented in the South Vellar and Paambaar subbasins in the district. This apart, Agri Business Centre (ABC) would be set up at Tiruvarankulam and Embal. -Our Bureau

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