Dimapur: A Kerala-based firm, Harrisons Malayalam Restricted (HML), has determined to foray into Nagaland to discover potentialities within the rubber enterprise and get a marketplace for the rubber farmers of the state.
Apart from rubber, the corporate additionally plans to do enterprise in fruits akin to pineapple produced within the state, HML vp and head of rubber enterprise of the corporate Biju Panicker instructed reporters right here on Saturday.
A four-member group of the corporate was in Nagaland to discover enterprise potentialities in rubber and fruits.
Panicker mentioned the HML is trying to discover potentialities of venturing into advertising/buying and selling (shopping for and promoting) totally different grades of processed rubber together with ribbed smoked sheets, Indian commonplace pure rubber and many others.
“We’re taking a look at sourcing the fabric from small farmers. We count on to set in movement a series response the place a farmer will have the ability to produce the very best quality rubber utilizing scientific and progressive strategies from their farm and likewise get a market to promote the produce at their doorstep thereby giving them a constant and truthful revenue all year long,” he mentioned.
Panicker mentioned the corporate is optimistic about getting a pleasant marketplace for the rubber farmers of Nagaland.
He mentioned the corporate will assist the farmers faucet rubber and different requirements like replanting, maintenance, harvesting, processing and advertising of pure rubber as the standard of rubber is essential.
“Potential in rubber cultivation in Nagaland appears extraordinarily good with 86 lakh hectares of land already below rubber cultivation,” he added.
The HML has tied up with TOKA Multi-Objective Co-Operative Society of Nagaland to enterprise into the rubber enterprise within the state.
