NAMSAI, Sep 18: Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein on Sunday inaugurated the Common Facility Centre (CFC) of Turmeric, Aloevera, Moringa and Mushroom SFURTI (Scheme of Fund for Regeneration of Traditional Industries) cluster Namsai. 
Mein expressed his elation on one of its kind processing unit being set up in the district. Bringing up the subject of Ease of Doing business (EoDB), Mein urged the district heads to facilitate and hand hold the general public in availing maximum services being rendered by the government.
He said that the State has highest land bank in the North East and called upon SHGs for self employment.
Mein said Namsai has immense potential and can be termed as the spice area more than a fruit belt and called on concerned department for strengthening efforts to add Namsai in the Spice map of India.
He also lauded the effort of former field officer of Spice Board Namsai for spearheading activities to help farmers in increasing growth of spice in the district.
“Namsai should emerge as the highest contributor to the GDP,” said Mein and added that  through concerted team effort we can aim to achieve it.
He stated that a night market at Namsai is in the pipeline where tourist can buy local handicrafts and taste the Tai Khamti cuisine in one place.
He also emphasised on the need to modernise our traditional ways of farming and stressed on how modernisation and mechanisation will reduce the input cost and help farmers fetch premium prices for their produce, for this, “a pilot project for farm mechanisation should be adopted by department concerned and depending on the success of such projects, the process can be replicated”, he said. 
Namsai district has reinforced its venture in doubling farmers income through the inauguration of a Common Facility Centre of Turmeric, Aloevera, Moringa and Mushroom SFURTI cluster Namsai.
Scheme of Fund for Regeneration of Traditional Industries  is an initiative by the Ministry of MSME to promote Cluster development.
PPDC, Agra is the the Nodal Agency while Nisarg Agripreneurship foundation is the technical agency and the scheme is executed by NOSAAP, Producer Co. Ltd at Namsai.
The trial run for the spice section of the unit started from the month of June by the TA (NOSAAP). For the unit to function all-round the year, NOSAAP had tied up with a buyer from Hyderabad and procured around 300 MT of  turmeric. Since the month of April, multiple stages of processing have started such as washing, boiling, slicing, drying and powdering of turmeric. 

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