Honey Corners

In News: Recently, Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister launched Madhukranti portal and Honey Corners of National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation, NAFED in New Delhi.

Madhu Kranti portal

Portal to create a database of all stakeholders involved in honey and other hive products’ production, sales and marketing chain.
All sales transactions in honey trading in the country shall be captured through a mobile app in the second phase to achieve desired results in the area of source traceability.
Online registration/ traceability system for source of Honey and other beehive products will help in checking the quality and source of adulteration of honey. The system will also enable consumers/public to know the source of honey and assure quality of the products

Honey Corner: Specially designed space in Nafed’s stores dedicated to sale of honey.

National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd (NAFED)

Apex organization of marketing cooperatives for agricultural produce in India.
Founded on 2nd October 1958.
Registered under the Multi-State Co-operative Societies Act, 2002.
NAFED is now one of the largest procurement as well as marketing agencies for agricultural products in India.

Objectives:

To organize, promote and develop marketing, processing and storage of agricultural, horticultural and forest produce;
To distribute agricultural machinery, implements and other inputs;
To act and assist for technical advice in agricultural production.

Sweet Revolution

Sweet Revolution‘ is a strategic step to emphasize the increase in honey production in the state, which can be a major contributor to doubling the income of the farmers.
With the increase in income, the production of crops will also increase by 15%.

Purpose of sweet revolution