In a first of its kind, drones were used for the <\/span>transportation of Lakadong turmeric from Meghalaya to other parts of the country with an aim to resolve first-mile connectivity issues of farmers from the hinterland.<\/span><\/p>\n Lakadong turmeric has been identified under the <\/span>One District, One Product(ODOP) Initiative<\/span><\/a> of the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT).<\/span><\/p>\n It has been identified as a product with huge potential for growth and export from West Jaintia Hills, a district of Meghalaya.<\/span><\/p>\n This turmeric has the highest curcumin content of 7-9% (in comparison to 3% or less in other varieties).<\/span><\/p>\n Meghalaya has also applied for a Geographical Indication tag for Lakadong turmeric.<\/span><\/p>\n Lakadong turmeric faces severe market access issues due to the remoteness of the location, topography and terrain. Due to this, buyers have to incur additional costs to transport the goods.<\/span><\/p>\n Hence, the ODOP has partnered with <\/span>AGNIi Mission <\/span><\/a>to identify Indian innovative technologies such as drones that can play a transformative role in the end-to-end processing of Lakadong Turmeric.<\/span><\/p>\n Note: <\/b>India is the largest producer and exporter of turmeric. India produces 78% of the world\u2019s turmeric.<\/span><\/p>\n Source<\/b>: This post is based on the article \u201c<\/b>First of its kind Fly-off event to demonstrate use of UAVs\/Drones for transport of Lakadong Turmeric happens in West Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in PIB <\/b>on 7th Feb 2022<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? In a first of its kind, drones were used for the transportation of Lakadong turmeric from Meghalaya to other parts of the country with an aim to resolve first-mile connectivity issues of farmers from the hinterland. What is Lakadong Turmeric? Lakadong turmeric has been identified under the One District, One Product(ODOP)… Continue reading First of its kind Fly-off event to demonstrate use of UAVs\/Drones for transport of Lakadong Turmeric happens in West Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-166879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is Lakadong Turmeric?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What are the issues faced by <\/b>Lakadong turmeric in transportation?<\/b><\/h5>\n