The Bihar Fruit and Vegetable Development Corporation (BFVDC) will be developed as a service provider. A decision to this effect was taken at a high-level meeting of the agriculture department held under the chairmanship of chief minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday.
The CM said that under the state’s food policy, after developing the corporation as service provider, ripening chamber of tetra packing unit will be set up. Bihar is a leading state in fruit and vegetable production and it produces 133 lakh metric tonnes vegetables and 38 lakh metric tonnes fruits every year.
It was also decided at the meeting that the agriculture department’s 25-acre land at Mithapur farm would be developed as an agriculture complex. Two models were presented before the chief minister in this connection. The CM directed agriculture production commissioner A K Sinha to remove encroachment from the premises of bazaar samitis. He also directed him to take action against officials under whose tenure these premises were encroached and they failed to take action to remove them.
Meanwhile, agriculture minister Narendra Singh showed potatoes grown by the farmers of Sohdih in Nalanda district through organic farming. He informed the chief minister that in organic farming less manure is used.
Source: BFVDC to be developed as service provider
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