eFresh, an information support service to farmers, has tied up with Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd and Coca-Cola India under Unnati project to help mango farmers improve productivity, quality and safety of the produce.

Training will be conducted in select villages in Andhra Pradesh by using mobile bus that can seat 20 farmers. It has audio-visual facilities to screen demo programmes.

“We will disseminate good agricultural practices with emphasis on application technologies for the mango crop cultivators,” Srihari, Managing Director of eFresh, said here in a press release on Tuesday.

First of the training programmes was held in October in Chittoor district. “We will extend this to other districts like Kadapa. We will train about 700 farmers every month,” he said.

>kurmanath.kanchi@thehindu.co.in

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