The  Department of Agriculture along with Godrej Agrovet Private Limited (GAVL) conducted the distribution of Farm Machineries for Oil palm farmers and the first buy -back of Fresh Fruit Bunches (FFBs) of oil palm farmers from Baghty Sub-Division under Wokha District on June 24 at the office of the SDAO Baghty.

The program was flagged off by C Peter Yanthan, Additional Director of Agriculture in the presence of Z Hukhato Sema, Joint Director of Agriculture -NMEO-Oil Palm, L Sunep Pongener, District Agriculture officer Wokha, Renathung Kikon, SDAO Baghty and Field executive from GAVL.

Speaking to the farmers, C Peter Yanthan, Additional Director of Agriculture reiterated the commitment of the Industry partner and the Department of assured buy back of FFBs from old plantation too.

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Yanthan also states that the Department has given extra effort to engage reliable partners and accordingly Buy backs are now a consistent activitiy.Interacting with the  farmers he also emphasized on the importance of edible oil to the economy of the country and how Nagaland farmers can contribute towards saving of foreign exchange of the country  through cultivation of oil palm. Further, he also downplayed the negative campaign against oil palm cultivation creating environmental pollution and other effects.

The programme was followed by interacting with the farmers .