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Maharashtra agriculture minister assures marketing of GI-tagged Kashmiri Saffron.
Jun 05, 2023

Our government will provide all facilities for marketing of GI-tagged Kashmiri Saffron, Maharashtra Agriculture Minister Abdul Sattar said on Thursday here. He hoped that the government of Jammu and Kashmir UT will reciprocate by providing a market to agricultural produce from Maharashtra.
 
The minister said this during a visit to the Indian International Saffron Trading Centre at the Dusoo Pampore area of Pulwama district. During the visit, he visited various sections of the IIKSTC Dusoo. He was briefed by the officers about different activities in the international trading centre.
 
In addition to the Stigma Separation Centre, the minister also inspected the drying, grading, packing and e-Auction centres at the park. He also held a meeting with IIKSTC officials and Saffron growers during which discussions were held to make the Saffron industry more stable.
 
Joint Director Agriculture Ghulam Mohammad Dhobi, Administrator IIKSTC Shahnawaz Ahmad Shah, Khursheed Ahmad, Dr Abdul Nayeem, Dr Majid Ali, Tariq Ahmad Parray, Saffron growers association president Abdul Majeed Wani and other officials of IIKSTC were present on the occasion.
 
'We have a huge market for agriculture business in Maharashtra where we will provide shop and other facilities for marketing of Saffron,' the agricultural minister from Maharashtra told Kashmir Reader. He said his visit is aimed at strengthening bilateral trade between Maharashtra and Jammu and Kashmir for the benefit of the farming community at both places.
 
'I want to send a message that the original (saffron) product is being sent from Kashmir after processing at a world-class laboratory. In this international-level laboratory, there are no chances of duplicity and I am really impressed with its functioning,' he said. He promised to provide all facilities to Jammu and Kashmir government for selling in Mumbai.
 
Abdul Sattar hoped that the bilateral trade between Maharashtra and Jammu and Kashmir will strengthen the mutual brotherhood between the people of the two places. He thanked the Government of India for providing farmers of Jammu and Kashmir with this facility in 2016.
 
He further said that farmers are being empowered and their produce is sold globally. 'As the agriculture ministry from the government of Maharashtra, I assure all facilities for selling Kashmiri Saffron at Mumbai, Thane and Pune. I also wish the agricultural produce of Maharastra to sell in Jammu and Kashmir at good prices,' he said.
 
It is a big thing that the Government of India has set up a high-tech lab here where around 16,000 saffron growers get benefited.
'Growers process their produce here and after following due procedure it is given a GI tag authenticating its purity,' he said and thanked all the employees of the lab for their work.
 
'Once the saffron is given GI tag at the India International Kashmir Saffron Trading Centre, it is a guarantee for its purity beyond an iota of doubt,' he said, adding that the saffron growers should have the market in all parts of India so that Kashmiri saffron growers’ income gets doubled.
    
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