Uttarakhand Apple festival 2016 at Urban Haat, CBD belapur, Navi Mumbai
Uttarakhand Horticulture Marketing Board in association with
the Department of Horticulture and Food Processing Uttarakhand organized two days “APPLE FESTVAL – 2016” on 15 & 16 October, 2016 at C.B.D. Urban
Haat, Belapur, Navi Mubai. Fresh Apples of different varieties from the
remotest part of the state will be the main attraction of the exhibition,
different types of organic food grains, pulses, spices, honey in addition to
the silk work of the Uttarakhand state will also be presented in the
exhibition. The program will jointly be inaugurated by Shree Subhash Deshmukh,
Cabinet Minister for Co-operatio, Marketing & Textiles, Government of
Maharashtra, Smt. Manda Tai Mhatre, Hon’ble MLA. Belapur Navi ;Mumbai and Shree
Pritam Singh Panwar, Miister of Horticulture Government of Uttarakhand on 15
October, 2016 at 5.00pm. Apples and all other organic items will also be
available for sale to the public in this programme. A short colourful cultural
programme based on the vivid culture of Uttarakhad state will also be staged by
the folk artists of Uttarakhand.
Press conference was addressed by Mr. Preetam Singh Panwar
(Minister of Horticulture Government of Uttarakhand. He told about importance
of organic food and their production. Last year Apple production will increase
20 million ton.
This year environment was not according to production that why
production is low as compare to earlier. He told that they coming to here to
promoting/marketing their product in market which vendor and consumer will
directly order easily. Main vision is that their product will promote
worldwide.
In this festival 30-40 apple varieties display in this exhibition in
Urban Haat belapur, Navi Mumbai. Mr. Tikam singh panwar (Aditional secretary
horticulture), Mr. B. S. Negi ( Dir. Horticulture), Mr. R.C. Srivastava (CEO
Marketing Board Uttarakhand), Mr. S. M. Sharma (Dir. Sericulture), Mr. Nipendra
Chauhan (Science CAP), Mr. A. K. Negi
(GM marketing), Mr. Sanjay Srivastava (DHO Dehradun), Mr Mahendra Pal (Research
officer Dehradun), Mr. Narendra Kumar ( DHO Uttarkashi), Mr Kundan Singhy
Panwar (Udyan Pandit UK) and all officer of Department of Horticulture &
Allied) attended and addressed this conference.
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