Be tech-savvy to get best prices, CM tells farmers

The CM referred to Surat APMC which has started online booking facility and doorstep delivery system for vegetable and fruits in that city.

“Not only this, think of giving irradiation treatment to your produce like potato to store them for long time and send them to international markets to realise better prices. A model irradiation centre has been set up in Bavla near Ahmedabad and I suggest the directors of Rajkot APMC to visit that centre,” Patel said.

The CM added that Central government was giving 50 per cent grant for setting up such a facility. She further added that irradiated vegetable and fruit could be stored at around 15 degree Celsius temperature and thereby could cut electricity bills of cold storages by 15 per cent.

Rajkot AMPC chairman Hardevsinh Jadeja said the old complex located on National Highway 27 near the city will now be used as vegetable and fruit market as well as building storage facilities while new complex will deal with other agricultural commodities.
Rajkot APMC, which is named Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Marketing Yard, was established in 1964 and the body is celebrating its golden jubilee year. The old complex on NH27 had come up in 1973.