CII Agro Tech opens to huge farmer response

By 121 News Reporter

Chandigarh 22^nd November:- CII AgroTech 2014, the 11th in the series being organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) at Parade Ground, Sector 17 has become a major crowd puller right from Day One. Farmers from nearby villages and towns as well as from far away Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand, HP, Punjab and Haryana started trooping in early to check out what has been added new this year.  With 10 concurrent shows and over 160 exhibitors, including 36 from overseas, the CII AgroTech fair this year is expected be a heavy crowd puller, as was witnessed from today's success.

 The biggest crowd pullers were the new farming machinery on display. Farmers were seen eager to purchase a few immediately. Dilbagh Singh, who had come from Fatehgarh Sahib, and who was visiting AgroTech for the first time said, "We had heard so much of CII Agro Tech from our fellow farmers and that is what brought us here. Till now, we have visited some of the stalls and are very impressed with the new technologies on display. I wish I had come earlier too. There is so much to see and everything is the latest, which we don't get to see otherwise anywhere else".

A lot of Farmers and Food Cultivators from around the world are here to learn new food production and cultivation techniques. The Hall No. 2 is currently hosting the much followed 'Food Expo' and 'Food Tech' Show at India's Premier Biennial Agro Technology & Business Fair.

 

 Key exhibitors of the Food Expo include Chatha Foods Pvt Ltd, Tasty Dairy Specialities Ltd, Spices Board; while Frick India Ltd, Domino Printech India Ltd, Thermax Ltd, Janus Packaging Pvt. Ltd, Sunman Engineering Inc, Blue Star Ltd, Allround India veg. processing Machines Ltd, Bayer crop Science Ltd, Danfoss Industries Pvt Ltd, Control Print Ltd, are the key exhibitors of the Food Tech Show.

 

Neeraj Narula, Manager- Business Development HVAC, Danfoss Power Electronics Division said that we are leading component manufacturer offering a wide range of products including Cold Chain Solutions Ammonia Controls, Compressors, Condensing Units, VFD - Variable Frequency Drives n and Electronic Controls. Our large clientele base includes OEMs, End Users, Contractors and designers. One of our major objectives of partaking in Agro Tech is to showcase and highlight our products especially the Cold Chain Solution unit. In addition, Agro Tech offers a great platform for us to interact with key stakeholders and farmers where we provide them information and product suggestion on setting up a cold storage business.  We look forward to meet up industry people for business networking and intend to promote our business objectives and product line.

 

Ravjot Ahluwalia, a Food Supplement developer from Mohali, said that he visit Food Tech expo every year to look out for latest technologies in the food processing industry. This platform gives me an opportunity to understand new technologies on offer and interact with industry experts on the same. Apart from new technologies, Agro Tech also provides me an opportunity to initiate networking and develop good industry relations. I am a regular visitor and am happy to see more visitors coming into the fair and open their horizons to new technologies.

 

Krish Lal, a Haryana Government Agriculture Officer said, that he had been coming to the Agro Tech exhibition since a decade and have seen this fair grow. The fair has helped the industry develop and has made farmers aware of the new developments in technology and in the food processing sector. This fair motivates farmers to come out and discover new farming techniques and initiate them into their everyday farming. Now villagers are much more interested in visiting the fair and understanding new farming processes; and the entire credit for this goes to Agro Tech.