Anantapur-based FPO among six organisations representing country at Dubai Expo
The Hindu
‘We will explain methodology followed by farmers in growing millets organically in district’
The Hampapuram-based Anantha Aadarana Millets Farmer Producer Organisation(FPO) is one of the six organisations selected by the Indian Institute of Millets Research (IIMR) and The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) to represent the country at the Dubai Expo from February 17 to 19.
The only representatives from the State, M. Ramakrishna and Y. Gangireddy, from the Anantapur-based FPO left for Dubai on Tuesday.
Mr. Ramakrishna said that their FPO supported 500 member-farmers to improve the quality of production, value addition, and is looking forward to tying up with larger firms for marketing.

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Friday pledged to mobilise people in resistance against the BJP-led Union government’s “anti-agricultural worker, anti-farmer, anti-worker, anti-people” laws and policies till they are all repealed, the party said on Friday. In a statement issued here, the CPI(M) said the members took the pledge following a three-day meeting held at Thiruvananthapuram.

Expressing the need for more number of socially responsive engineers and lawyers for furthering development of the country, Governor Thaawarchad Gehlot here on Friday lauded St. Aloysius institution for widening its service in the education sector by opening separate institutes for engineering and law











