Haryana launches scheme to improve linkages to help farmers

With a view to create effective backward linkages and empower farmers, the Haryana government has implemented a scheme for grant-in-aid for setting up of Primary Processing Centres (PPCs) and Collection Centres (CCs) in rural areas.
A notification to this effect has been issued recently by the Industries and Commerce Department.
The scheme aims at creation of effective backward linkages and empowerment of farmers, an official release said here today.
This could be achieved by value addition of produce, provision of processing and preservation facilities at village level to help the farmers to enhance shelf life of perishable produce, resulting in better remunerative prices for their agricultural produce, it said.

A piece of land measuring one to two acres would be required for setting up of these PPCs and CCs.
Under this, processing facilities would be provided at the farm level, which may include facilities for weighing, cleaning, sorting, grading, packing, pre-cooling, Controlled Atmosphere (CA) or Modified Atmosphere (MA), cold storage and dry warehouses.
Facility of mobile pre-cooling trucks or vans which may be suitable for transportation of perishable agricultural and horticultural produce, dairy, meat, poultry and fish would also be provided as per requirement. Value addition and processing of fruits and vegetables, using local produce as raw material, would also be carried out.