NCML enter into a partnership with ICRISAT

To help smallholder farmers achieve market linkages and nurture innovations to stabilize, safeguard and enhance their livelihoods, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and National Collateral Management Services Limited (NCML) signed a Memorandum of Understanding at the NCML headquarters in Mumbai recently. The partnership aims to develop a framework to enable smallholder farmers to access markets and get the right price for their produce.

This partnership will enable co-operation on knowledge support, exchange of relevant information and development of joint projects to be utilised for agri-business activities and also scientific and business publications. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) is the country's leading agri-research institute and National Collateral Management Services Limited (NCML) is a major agri-infrastructure player.

The MoU signed by ICRISAT Director General Dr. William D. Dar was exchanged between Mr. Sanjay Kaul, MD & CEO, NCML and Dr. Saikat Datta Mazumdar, COO, Nutriplus Knowledge Program of ICRISAT's Agribusiness and Innovation Platform (AIP).

As a part of this agreement, AIP shall closely work with NCML to develop a framework to work towards facilitating and promoting innovative agri-food processing technologies and primary processing, create value added products, food product testing and training, surveys, quality control, quality assurance and documentation and practices to deal with contamination in food commodities.

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