Bhubaneswar: Pradip Kumar Amat, Minister, Panchayati Raj & Drinking Water at Bhubaneswar on 13 July inaugurated a two- day long workshop on packaging of food, handloom and handicraft product.
The major objective behind organizing this two-day workshop is to enhance the knowledge of on prevailing packaging options in the market and adopt suitable scientific packaging technologies for the rural products produced and manufactured by the Produces Groups and Companies.
ORMAS has developed 3812 Producers Groups, 23 Producer Companies and 45 FPOs & Production Clusters under various schemes. The products include food and spices, handloom and handicrafts.
The role of good packaging material and equipments is important to increase the longevity and shelf life of products, indicate nutritional parameters by certifications including FSSAI. Besides, packaging of is important for retail, online marketing and export quality processing and value addition.
While addressing the participants, Shri Amat said, “the 2 day workshop by ORMAS is a welcome step. It will assist quality packaging of products made various producers groups and companies and enhance retail, online and export sales, through quality testing and certification”.
Guha Poonam Tapas Kumar, CEO, ORMAS said, “ the 2 day workshop is an endeavour to learn new technologies in supply chain management, packaging development and certifications. We are also planning to set up packaging units in some districts to accelerate the process.”
Among others, Babu Rao Guduri, Joint Director, Indian Institute of Packaging, Mumbai, P K Roul, Vice-Chancellor, OUAT, Satwik Swain, Secretary General, OASME, delegates from CFTRI, ICRISAT, CIPET-Balasore and CIMAP shall also present papers.
The two day workshop was attended CEOs of PGs, Business Managers & members from different groups. On this occasion an exhibition of packaging materials and equipments along with packaged food & spices from different districts was also organized.