Assam has started supplying potatoes to major international consumer food products company PepsiCo.
As a beginning, a quantity of 50 metric tonnes (MT) of potato was shipped from Dibrugarh in the past few days to a manufacturing plant of PepsiCo located outside the state. PepsiCo plans to procure 50,000 MT of potato annually from farmers in the state for its upcoming plant at Nalbari, which is due to be commissioned in 2025. In the meantime, PepsiCo has already started training the state’s farmers to produce high-quality potatoes by providing technical know-how and high-quality seeds.
( Topic used in a recent departmental exam of APSC)
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