MSME Trade Fair 2016 Concluded

Bhubaneswar/ January 13, 2015: The seven day long Odisha MSME (Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises) Trade Fair 2016 concluded today evening. Around 3.5 lacs visitors visited the trade fair which made business of around Rs. 6 crores for the MSME exhibitors while simultaneously generating over business enquiries worth of over Rs. 70 crores.

Governor addressing the gathering

Governor of Odisha S.C Jamir graced the ceremony and encouraged the entrepreneurs to come forward. “To ensure competitiveness of the MSMEs, it is essential that the availability of infrastructure, technology and skilled manpower are in tune with the global trends. Emphasis should be made on promoting the MSME products online. MSMEs play a major role in broad basing the industrial growth and augmenting employment opportunities, revenue exports and economic growth. Odisha is endowed with vasrt agro, forest, mineral and other natural resources which can be effectively utilized for value addition and ultimately benefitting the State through economic growth and employment generation”, said Jamir.

Jamir also stressed that 20 or 25% of the total procurement of any Government department or PSU is to be procured from MSMEs. MSMEs are the best vehicle for inclusive growth, to create local demand and consumption.

The ceremony was also graced by Industries Minister Shri Devi Prasad Mishra who suggested increased focus on setting up of small industries to create employment opportunities. He put emphasis upon linkage conversion amongst the MSMEs and mother companies.

MSME minister Jogendra Behera mentioned about the benefit of trade fair and how it has been instrumental in attracting new investors and youth entrepreneurs.

MSME Principal Secretary Gagan Kumar Dhal accentuated the need to establish more agro based industries with more focus on food processing units with value added products.

Director EPM B.K Das gave the vote of thanks to everyone for motivating the entrepreneurs and adding to creating future employment.

Odiya Periodic film “Buxi Jagabandhu- The Forgotten Legend” launched

Bhubaneswar: Periodic Oriya language flick “Buxi Jagabandhu - the Forgotten Legend” was recently launched at a hotel in Bhubaneswar. Produced by Akshay Parija, the film unit claims it to be the first ever Oriya periodic film. The film casts Anubhav Mohanty as the protagonist who will essay the character Buxi Jagabandhu.

Poster of Oriya upcoming periodic film 'Buxi Jagabandhu'

Earlier Parija produced ‘Jianta Bhuta’, ‘Thukul’ and ‘Kehi Nuhen Kahara’. Not divulging much on the plot of the movie, Akshay Parija said, “The research on the Paika Vidroh is still under process. This was the first resitstance against the British that brought victory and was institutional in driving out the enemies in Khurdha so much so that they feared encroaching upon the territory. Buxi Jagabandhu played a pivotal role in Odisha’s rise against the Britishers , yet there is hardly any mention of him in the national and world history. This film is a humble tribute to rediscover and unearth Odisha’s forgotten legends who laid their life in the service of their motherland.”

Launch of the film in Bhubaneswar

“Odisha is not very much known as a warrior state other than rich art, culture and history. Trough this film, we will be able to showcase the glorious history of many warrior clans in Odisha, outside Odisha,” Parija added.

“After 12 years of successful film career, I will be reinventing myself in a completely different character and personality. I am very excited being instrumental in reviving a 200 year glorious history of my mother state”, said Anubhav.

Launch of film 'Buxi Jagabandhu' news in Odiya language

Seminar on ‘Promotion of Food Processing Industries’

Bhubaneswar: On the sixth day of MSME Trade Fair 2016, a seminar on ‘Promotion of Food Processing Industries’ was inaugurated by B. Bhuyan, Professor at Centre for Agri-Business. He stressed on the need to support and create awareness amongst entrepreneurs on the importance of food processing. Today’s generation is more dependent on ready to make, semi-processed or fully processed products and thus agriculture today has grown from supply of raw materials to complete packaged foods. He encouraged the entrepreneurs present to take up agriculture and increase food exports.

Dr. P. K Bhanja from Directorate of Horticultre, Odisha, deliberated on the potential of food processing industries based on horticultural resources. He put emphasis on the growing demand of cashew-apple products; flower derived aromatic oil and fruit preservatives in the international market.

Scientist and Head Agro Enterprise, Directorate of Agriculture & Food Production, Odisha provided insights on the agri business that might help the entrepreneurs start their own business based on geographic locations, availability of raw materials with low production cost.

Participants asking questions

Joint Director of Fisheries Pratap Ranjan Rout gave a detailed presentation and statistical data on the potential of marine industries. He revealed that Odisha has the capacity to produce 4.50 lac metric tonne of fresh water fish. Currently 3.01 lac metric tonne is being cultivated and 90% of it is being exported. Apart from cultivation and farming, he also stressed on the need to have more industry standard cold storage units to enable maximum export of international market and boost economy.

Subsidies up to `5 crore are being provided to each individual units of cold chain system, ice plants, pre-processing centres and other seafood processing plants.

Deputy Director BK Parida of Directorate of AH&VS spoke on the potential of food processing industries based on animal resources. The growing urbanisation and increasing quality consciousness have created the market for processed milk, meat and egg products. Semi-processed and ready-to-eat products have flooded the retail markets. Up to `50-75 lakh subsidy is being provided for establishment of poultry layer and broiler farm under State Agriculture Policy.

Participants inthe seminar

C Anandharamakrishnan, Principal scientist, CSIR_CFTRI, Mysore stressed on the need of modern technologies in food processing units. Food processing in the country is showing a healthy growth of 20 percent since last year, more than any IT industry.

Subrat Panigrahi of IQEMS spoke at length about food safety and how street food vendors can be educated about food safety norms. “IQEMS has conducted three sessions till now in which more than 1000 street food vendors have been trained on food safety standards.

Bidhan Das, Deputy Director, Indian Institute of Packaging spoke about food packaging technologies that can be used to increase the shelf-life of products.

Among others, Nirupama Mishra of APICOL, Narayan Pani of NABARD, Deputy Director of National Horticulture Board, S.K Sarangi, Joint Director of Industries also spoke, N Pallai, Director of Industries and F.M Nayak, Additional Secretary MSME Department also spoke.

The news in Odiya language