400 firms to be part of Punjab agri meet

Over 400 companies across various sectors are likely to participate in the forthcoming agricultural event, Progressive Punjab Agriculture Summit-2014. This is the first time in the history of Punjab that a mega agricultural summit is being organised by the state government. The event organised in association with PHD Chamber of Commerce will be held from February 16 to 19 in Mohali.

Director of PHD Chamber of Commerce Dalip Sharma said the forthcoming summit is being held with the objective of reaching out to farmers through stakeholders of technology. Companies such as Mahindra & Mahindra, Monsanto, Bayer Crop Science, ITC, BCS-Ferrari, Dabur India, Pepsico, Tata Chemicals, Syngenta, Godrej Agrovet have already confirmed their participation.

In addition to national companies, firms from Holland, Italy, Israel, Taiwan and South Africa will also participate in the summit. A mega state pavilion is to be created at Agri-Tech 14 that will offer opportunities to nodal agencies, corporations and government department to showcase their success stories through attractive displays. The state pavilion will also play host as many as 12 other states.

Further, the summit would introduce live demonstrations and exhibit cattle farm stalls over an area of about 100 acres.

The exposition will have four categories, namely AgriEx, LivestockEx, FoodEx, FarmEX. In AgriEx category, companies in the field of chemicals, bio-technology, implements, irrigation systems, fertilizers, pesticides seeds, etc. will showcase their products. While LivestockEx will showcase dairy management, poultry management, fishery management and livestock management. Technology related to processed and packaged food, packaging, ingredient research will be showcased in the FoodEx group and tractors, farm equipment, machinery storage and farm power will be displayed by the FarmEx group.

It is expected that world class agriculture equipment/machinery manufacturing companies would display their products in the exhibition to benefit the farmers and give impetus to the agro-based economy of the state and to elicit maximum participation of renowned agriculturists, agri-experts and progressive farmers from across the globe.