The fragrance of Bhagalpur's sheared rice will spread in Malaysia, know how farmers will benefit in crores.

The fragrance of Bhagalpur's sheared rice will spread in Malaysia, know how farmers will benefit in crores.

• There is good news for the farmers of Bhagalpur’s five Farmer Producer Organizations who got export licenses from the Central Government. Its positive effect is visible. With the FPO, the demand for Bhagalpur products started increasing in foreign countries. Not only this, where five metric tonnes of sheared rice and bangles have been demanded from Malaysia, the London investors are making an advance demand for keeping five metric tonnes of Zardalu mangoes ready. In such a situation, the products of Bhagalpur started getting into the global market.
• Investors from abroad first approached Agro Point Krishak Producer Company Limited, an FPO-Farmer Producer Organization under Agriculture Department. The team leader of this FPO, Rakesh Kumar Singh, a resident of Pirpainti, said that he did his MBA from Swami Vivekanand Subharti University, Meerut. After this, working at Sarvodaya High School, Shobhanathpur, guided the students here and made them participate in the national-level science exhibition.
• Promoted organic and natural farming. In view of his achievement, he was selected as the nodal officer of the Spoken Tutorial Project run by IIT Bombay. Taking the experience of all the places, today we are trying to take the farmers of Bhagalpur forward on the path of progress. With constant efforts, we are promoting the export of Bhagalpur products. He told that there has been a demand for five metric tonnes of shear bangles and rice from Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia.
• Now the matter is stuck only on the rate. At the same time, the demand for five metric tonnes of Zardalu mangoes has been advanced from England.
• Five farmer producer organization got export license
• Atma's Deputy Project Director Prabhat Kumar Singh said that five Farmer Producer Organizations have got export licenses from the Government of India Ministry of Corporate Affairs.
• This positive effect is visible after getting the license. Even before this, the products of Bhagalpur were exported in small quantities. Bhagalpur's Katrani Chawal-Chuda and Zardalu Mango have got GI tags (Geographical Indication tag). Bhagalpur is famous for sheared rice, Chuda, and Zardalu mangoes. Its demand is high in the country and abroad.

Visible positive results

• Vikas Kumar, assistant director of the Horticulture Department, said that positive results started showing only after the FPO got the export license.
• Information was received from Pirpainti's FPO, which is very good news. There was only a need to get the market, which is now available after getting the export license. Apart from this, the cultivation of strawberries, mushrooms, dragon fruit, apple, zucchini, foreign papaya, etc. has started increasing in Bhagalpur. 
• On getting to the global market, if the products here are exported, then the farmers will get the desired benefits.