Maksam Tayeng

PASIGHAT, Dec 6:  Two-day awareness training cum workshop on packaging of orange was inaugurated today by Dambuk MLA Gum Tayeng, at Dambuk in Lower Dibang Valley. The workshop is being organized by the Department of Trade & Commerce and locally assisted by an NGO called Social Welfare Management & Promotional Organization (SWMPO). Bidhan Das, Deputy Director and Branch Head, Indian Institute of Packaging, Kolkata (IIP) and Nataraj, Assistant Director, IIP are attending the workshop as resource persons.
Inaugurating the programme, Tayeng expressed her gratitude to the Department of Trade & Commerce for organizing the important workshop in Dambuk for the orange growers. She also expressed gratitude to the resource persons from Indian Institute of Packaging, Kolkata for imparting various techniques of orange packaging to the farmers of the area.
She informed that through the holding of orange festivals, Dambuk oranges have become so popular and it is now the most sought after variety. Last year, Dambuk oranges were exported to foreign countries like Dubai for the first time and this year too it is being exported to Dubai in larger quantities, added Tayeng while urging the farmers to learn as much as possible from the training. 
Deputy Director, Trade & Commerce, Sonyung Modi, in his speech said that Dambuk area being the largest producer of quality oranges in the State, the department decided to conduct orange packaging training here so that orange growers could utilize the training during the ensuing harvest.
The Indian Institute of Packaging has been imparting packaging training in various parts of the State since 2011. 

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Kenter Joya Riba

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