Source: The Hindu
The Horticultural Producers' Cooperative Marketing and
Processing Society (HOPCOMS) will open 20 new fruit and vegetable
outlets in the city.
At a press conference here on
Wednesday, Karnataka Horticulture Federation (KHF) president
Ishwarchandra Hosmani said Minister for Horticulture S.A. Ravindranath
would symbolically conduct the ceremony to lay the foundation stone for
the Shivagiri outlet here.
Funding
He
said the KHF provided financial support of Rs. 4 lakh for each of the
outlets. Work would be completed and the outlets, which would have
modern storage facilities and spot billing facility, would open for
business in four months. The outlets would sell quality produce at
competitive prices, he said.
HOPCOMS would open 20
outlets in Dharwad this year and 40 outlets in Hubli next year. The
Hubli-Dharwad Municipal Corporation had provided land on lease to set up
the outlets, and the HOPCOMS was ready to open outlets in new
localities provided the HDMC gave it land.
A target
of setting up 150 outlets in Hubli-Dharwad had been set and if land was
provided, the KHF was ready to fund them, Mr. Hosmani said.
Organic produce
To
a query, Mr. Hosmani said that though there were no immediate plans to
open separate outlets for the organic produce, HOPCOMS would arrange for
organic counters at its outlets if farmers wished to market organic
products at the HOPCOMS outlets. Only organic produce that had been
tested and verified by the HOPCOMS officials would be allowed to be sold
at the organic counters, he said.
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