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00:00I want to tell you a short story, sir, about the marriages in Delhi.
00:09In the marriages in Delhi, flowers worth lakhs of crores are used, sir, because the decoration ends.
00:17But, sir, you may not know that for all these marriages in the Northeast,
00:25it is not a big deal to supply flowers.
00:30But, even today, these flowers come from Southeast Asia, Thailand, Vietnam, and other places.
00:41And not because we don't have flowers or variety.
00:45The biggest problem is that if the marriage is on the 20th,
00:50then the flower has to reach by 6 pm on the 19th.
00:54Not an hour before that, but an hour after that.
00:57And from our Northeast, sometimes the weather gets bad,
01:01there is no logistic hub, the flowers get spoiled.
01:05Because of this, the people who buy flowers,
01:08they prefer to buy from Thailand or Vietnam.
01:13Sir, what I mean to say is that we have different products.
01:19Our challenge is logistics networks.
01:23Whether it is rail connectivity, whether it is air connectivity,
01:27whether it is a large logistics hub for cold storage.
01:31Today, we send our pineapples to UAE, sir.
01:37We send our pineapples to Europe today.
01:40But it is very difficult to send these pineapples to Delhi.
01:47By the time we reach the Guwahati airport,
01:50a lot of things get spoiled.
01:53And whenever we talk to the LA, they say that
01:56there should be a big logistic hub in Guwahati.
01:59Sir, my request to you is that we focus on agriculture,
02:05focus on research, focus on farmers, focus on productivity.
02:10But along with that, our logistics network,
02:14our commercial network should be able to
02:17deliver our goods and products to different parts of the country and the world.
02:21Sir, it is very important for us to pay attention to these things.
02:25So, my request to you is that we should do this at every level,
02:29sir, at the state level, at the central government level,
02:32at the level of different ministries.
02:35Because agriculture is not the only work, sir.
02:37There will be civil aviation, railway industry,
02:40there will be commercial industries.
02:43Sir, if you can call a meeting or a conference at your level
02:51and push the logistics hub of the Northeast,
02:55then I think it will benefit our people and our farmers a lot.
03:01Sir, my second suggestion is that
03:04the goods that our farmers grow,
03:09in all these things, the shelf life is very less.
03:13Whether it is our pomegranates,
03:15whether it is our oranges,
03:17whether it is our bananas.
03:19So, as we know, sir, food processing is a very big part of this.
03:24Sir, you will be happy to know that in the last 3-4 years,
03:28Meghalaya has invested more than 250 processing units
03:32with a self-help group, with women.
03:39And most of all, we have done this with our state budget.
03:42We would like, sir, if you and the government
03:48can put food processing units at a large scale,
03:52packaging units and factories,
03:58then, sir, I hope that our people and our farmers
04:02will get a very good response and a good result.
04:06Today, you will be happy to know that
04:10our products that are made from these processing plants,
04:14today, from Japan to Australia to Europe
04:18and in our Middle East nations,
04:20our products, our honey, our turmeric,
04:24our ginger products are going to these countries.
04:27But our biggest problem is that we have a low quantity
04:31and we need to pay attention to both processing and growth.
04:35Sir, my second suggestion would be that
04:38if we can pay more attention to food processing,
04:44then I believe that we will be able to move forward in these things.
04:49Sir, my third suggestion would be that
04:52the way we have started cluster development programs in different areas,
04:58these cluster development programs...