India Pulses and Grains Association announces THE PULSES CONCLAVE 2020
Key
Highlights:
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The 5th edition of The Pulses Conclave will be held at
Aamby Valley City, Lonavala from February 12th to 14th,
2020
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Close to 1500 trade stakeholders from India and overseas expected to
participate in the Conclave
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Focus of the Conclave will be to brainstorm on ideas to help Indian
Pulses Trade become a major contributor to the PM’s vision of making India a $
5 trillion economy by 2024
Mumbai, November 6, 2019: India Pulses and Grains Association (IPGA),
the nodal body for India’s pulses trade and industry today announced that the 5th edition THE PULSES CONCLAVE, their biennial
global pulses conference will be held from Feb. 12th to 14th, 2020 at Amby Valley City in Lonavala,
Maharashtra. IPGA expects close to 1500 trade stakeholders from India and key
pulses exporting countries like USA, Australia, Canada, Myanmar, Ethiopia,
Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi, etc. to participate in The Pulses
Conclave 2020 (TPC 2020).
The Pulses Conclave 2020, as a part of its agenda will not just
discuss increasing domestic production and consumption but will also bring to
fore other areas of the trade like Improving Processing efficiencies,
increasing Consumption, Exports, Value Addition, Protein Extraction,
Post-harvest Crop Management, etc.
Mr. Jitu Bheda, Chairman – IPGA speaking on the occasion said, “Hon’ble Prime
Minister’s vision is to double the farmers income by the year 2022 and a huge
effort has been put into achieving the same. The result has been that India’s
pulses production has steadily grown every year from around 19 million tons in
2013-14 to 23 million tons in 201-19 and the target for 2019-20 is of 26.30
million tons. IPGA’s agenda and road map going forward will be to encourage its
members to take advantage of the increased domestic production, balance imports
vis-à-vis the production and demand thereby ensuring that the Indian consumer
does not face any availability crunch nor high retail prices.”
Mr. Pradeep Ghorpade, Chief Executive Officer, IPGA said, “The Conclave programme typically is
built around dissemination of global and domestic pulses production numbers,
global and domestic prices, supply and demand scenarios. However, at TPC 2020,
while covering these aspects of the trade, IPGA is looking to go beyond and
IPGA’s focus, by the end of the Conclave, will be to try and put together a
roadmap that will help the Indian Pulses Trade be able to contribute to the
Hon’ble Prime Minister’s vision of making India a $ 5 trillion economy through
retail sale of pulses, processed pulses, pulse derivates and value additions,
all of which will drive investments in
the entire value chain.”
Pulses are the key source of proteins in India and IPGA believes that
apart from addressing the availability of pulses ensuring affordability of
pulses is equally important. The Indian Government needs to work to creating a
plan that allows both farmers and consumers to be benefitted. IPGA will be
engaging with the Government to pursue the inclusion of Pulses in the PDS to
make the affordable for the BPL population, leading to an increase in demand
and drive increase in production.
The Indian Government over the
last year and half has introduced a number of tariff and non-tariff
barriers on the import of pulses to ensure that farmers get appropriate prices
for their produce and are encouraged to try and increase domestic production
levels. IPGA will be stepping up its efforts in engaging with key Ministries
like Agriculture, Consumer Affairs, Health & Family Welfare, Commerce to
discuss various initiatives to devise and implement programs that yield win-win
results for farmers as well as consumers.
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