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Honey FPO Programme

December 1 , 2020 1329 days 1033 0
  • The Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar recently inaugurated this cooperative programme. 
  • Under the programme, five farmer producer organisations are to be set up in five states.
  • They are to be established in East Champaran, Bihar; Bharatpur, Rajasthan; Morena, Madhya Pradesh; Mathura, Uttar Pradesh; and Sundarbans, West Bengal.
  • The organisations are to be set up by NAFED, National agricultural Cooperative marketing federation of India.
  • According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, India ranks 8th in the world in terms of honey production.
  • On other hand, China stands first in Honey production.

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