Port Blair, March 17: The Lt Governor, Lt Gen (Retd) Bhopinder Singh, PVSM, AVSM  has approved the participation of the A&N Islands Agriculture team in the 6th Agriculture, Horticulture & Food Processing Mission to China coinciding with the 14th China (Shouguang) International Vegetable Sci-tech fair from 26th April to 2nd May 2013, at Shanghai-Shouguang-Beijing.

The 6th Agriculture, Horticulture & Food Processing Mission to China is being organized by the India China Alliance for Cooperation (ICAC), an organization which focuses on promoting Sino-India bilateral trade, investment and cultural cooperation to know more about the rapid strides in the field of agriculture and food processing. The week-long programme would be especially relevant to all those engaged in producing, processing and marketing of fruits and vegetables, post harvest technologies and organic farming.

Participation in the China fair would also give an opportunity to the officials of the Directorate of Agriculture, A&N Administration to know about the different activities involved in the processing and value addition of fruits and vegetables in which China is the leading country. The key areas of interest would be frozen and canned fruits and vegetables, green house cultivation, technology to grow, process, preservation and package, technology for seeds production, emerging technologies for agriculture equipments for sowing, harvesting and post harvest processes. The main objective of the mission would be to identify areas of Sino-Indian trade and technology cooperation in the field of Agriculture, Horticulture, Food and Meat processing.