The state of Rajasthan is set to hold ‘ Global Rajasthan Agritech Meet (GRAM) 2016’ in November this year. This will be 3 day meet where more than 40000 farmers are expected to come. In a recent meeting with the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, which is also a partner for the event, Neelkamal Darbari, the Principal Secretary of Agriculture and Horticulture said, “The primary objective of GRAM is to ensure economic empowerment of the people through accelerated yet sustainable growth in agriculture and to double farmer’s income by 2022. Large number of suggestions and inputs were discussed to make the event a success.”
Apart from the farmers, this meet would be a big platform for the investors, researchers, academicians and manufactures. To promote the event various road shows throughout the state are being planned. Rajasthan has been successfully able to call Netherlands, Israel, Australia and Canada as the partners for the event.
Also, members from Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry and other higher officials of the state were present in the meeting.