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Ensure effective marketing of local organic products: Guv

Friday, 16 October 2020 | PNS | Dehradun

Governor Baby Rani Maurya has stressed on the need for effective marketing at the national and international level of the products made by women and organic products of the state. Women can be economically empowered by encouraging the production and marketing of local organic products. The organic tea of Uttarakhand should also reach consumers across the nation and abroad. The governor said this at an event here during which she launched a website of an organisation dedicated to organic products.

The governor further opined that farmers should be provided technical knowledge about organic farming and encouraged for foodgrain production.

The Forest and Wildlife minister Harak Singh Rawat said that the youths and women of the state can secure their livelihood through self employment while also strengthening the local economy.

The Agriculture and Horticulture minister Subodh Uniyal said that organic farming is done on 6.5 lakh hectare area in Uttarakhand. For the past two consecutive years, the state has been receiving the award for best organic state, he added.

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