Chief Guest
Masterchef Pankaj Bhadouria
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India has long been considered as a land of spices and the Western Ghats region of the country is found to be the origin of many spices like black pepper, cardamom to name a few. Over the years, there has been a steady increase in the consumption of spices in the country as well as growth in exports. The purchasing power of the people is increasing and upwards movement in food chain would significantly increase per capita consumption.
Uttar Pradesh is not only the largest consuming market for spices, but also possess highest potential for production of variety of spices, especially in Bundelkhand region. As per the projections of the Department of Horticulture, the State offers huge opportunities for production, value addition, processing, organic farming and consumption of spices. Uttar Pradesh Government is keen to increase the production of spices and help entrepreneurs setup processing units at district levels for medium and small businesses.
This offers big opportunity for large companies and brands to collaborate for forward market linkages. In this context, Centre for Agriculture and Rural Development jointly with Department of Horticulture is organizing a day long Spices Conference & Expo-2024 to bring all key stakeholders on one platform to showcase products and technologies and facilitate sourcing and supply chain and partnering for marketing and processing.
CARD is a premier Non-Governmental Organization, which is working in the areas of agro projects development, livelihood projects, capacity building and entrepreneurship development, and farmers market linkages programs, since its inception in the year 2000.
Department of Horticulture is the nodal department of the Government of Uttar Pradesh, which executes programs and policies and all developmental projects related to horticulture. The Government is committed to developing spices sector in the State for the benefit of the farmers.
The Spices Conference & Expo-2024 would be a state level event, in which spices FPOs and potential entrepreneurs would participate along with the state department, research institutions, bankers, national experts and senior executives from the spices industry. This seminar aims to promoting cultivation, supply chain and value chain, business linkages and market of spices in the State.
Each FPO and entrepreneur, who participates, would get hand-holding support and consultancy from CARD for the following:
