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The state cooperative department on Thursday launched a web portal www.tarkaarimart.in to supply locally grown fresh vegetables to the residents of the state capital and East Champaran district. Launching the webportal, cooperative department secretary Vandana Preyasi said the project was preponed to discourage people visiting vegetable markets putting their lives at risk.

“Our team worked hard and made it possible to get things completed at a time when people are risking their lives by paying visits to vegetable markets often found to be crowded. There are chances of getting infected there. But here we ensure supply of fresh vegetables to people`s doorsteps within 24 hours of the order placed online,” she said.

“Initially, the facility will be available to the residents of the state capital and Motihari, the district headquarters of East Champaran. Later it will be expanded to enitre Bihar,,” the cooperative department secretary said.

The project aimed at providing fair price of their produce to the farmers and vegetables to the consumers at a reasonable rate compared to the open vegetable markets. “It will also fulfill the much ambitious project “Har thaali mein Bihari Tarkari”, (vegetable grown in Bihar in each platter in the country)" she added.

Around 12,000 vegetable growers of Patna, Vaishali, Samastipur, Begusarai and Nalanda have got registered with the primary vegetable cooperative society set up at the panchayat level for collection and marketing of the produce.

Speaking on the occasion, managing director Anand Sharma said that the main objective behind ‘Tarkari` Vegfed’, is to reduce the adverse impact of low rates by farmers and high rates by consumers.
Responding to a query, the managing director said that the ‘Tarkaari` Vedfed’, will work on the pattern of Comfed, which regulates the supply of milk in the state and outside.

“As we will ensure quality of vegetables and that too at a reasonable rate, there is no reason people will not prefer to buy from us. The vegetables grown along the Gangetic plains are more delicious, which other states lack,” he deed.

Preyasi said the project will also help the state in dealing with the problem related to a large influx of migrant workers from the state in search of jobs. “These workers will be provided employment opportunities in the state,” she added.

CEO of Union Patna Subhash Kumar said that vegetable growers would supply the produce to the collection centre at the panchayats from where it will be sent to other destinations.

Amit Shukla, chairman of Tirhut union and Avinash Kumar of PMU, also expressed their views on the occasion.
Earlier, CM Nitish Kumar reviewed the works undertaken by the cooperative department. At a virtual review meeting, Preyasi apprised the CM of the department’s new initiative about fresh vegetables procured from farmers` agricultural fields and sold to consumers through e-commerce.

Food and consumer protection department minister Lesi Singh, principal secretary to CM Deepak Kumar, principal secretary Chanchal Kumar and information and public relations department secretary Anupam Kumar were also present at the meeting.

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