Cold storage facilities at five airports in NE

New Delhi: To cash in on the potential of the northeastern states in increasing the country’s spice exports, the Centre today announced plans to establish cold storage facilities at five airports in the region and heavily subsidise air freight to Kolkata, Delhi and Mumbai for all export-oriented horticulture products from the region.
The government also announced a new initiative to start organic cultivation of turmeric, ginger and chilli on a large scale in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district. Though the present contribution of the northeast to India’s spice exports was very small, there was a great scope for increasing it, Union minister of state for commerce Mr Jairam Ramesh said. For this purpose, cold storage facilities would be established at five airports in the northeastern region ~ Guwahati, Aizawl, Imphal, Agartala and Dimapur, he said, announcing a subsidy scheme under which 90 per cent of air freight to Kolkata airport and 50 per cent of air freight to New Delhi and Mumbai airports from northeast airports for all horticulture products meant for exports would be subsidised by the Centre.
24/06/07 The Statesman

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