Orange growers’ body wants Mother Dairy to procure the fruit and market it

Rahul Wadke

The Orange Growers Association of India (OGAI) has asked for the Nationwide Horticulture Board to utilise businesses these kinds of as Mother Dairy and its fruit and vegetable subsidiary Safal for procurement of oranges from Nagpur and Amravati region as the 21-day nationwide lockdown has influenced the motion of inter-Condition vehicles.

Mother Dairy has an effective procurement technique in Nagpur and Amravati region, explained Amol Totey, Doing work President, OGAI.

Totey informed BusinessLine that Mother Dairy can acquire all the make from Nagpur region and consider them to their Mangolpuri plant in New Delhi and can current market the identical directly from their 400 in addition retail outlets in different locations of Nationwide Money, he explained incorporating that it is a prudent resolution to utilise Mother Dairy and Nationwide Dairy Improvement Board (NDDB) infrastructure. From there they can distribute oranges to hospitals and other institutions.

He explained that OGAI has also proposed utilising the infrastructure of Horticultural Producers’ Cooperative Marketing and Processing Culture (HOPCOMS) in Bengaluru, as they have a strong community of retail outlets in Karnataka with a great amount of quantity-based use.

Orange growers from Nagpur and Amravati region are struggling from unseasonal rains, hailstorms and other normal calamities alongside with the lockdown declared because of to the coronavirus pandemic. Though transportation is authorized by highway for vehicles stuffed with oranges, there are no customers in wholesale mandis of the main use markets these kinds of as Delhi, Kolkata and Bengaluru, Totey lamented.