The Arunachal Pradesh government’s initiative for local farmers to tap into the large market the Army and paramilitary forces offer has taken off.
Some strategic parts of Arunachal Pradesh have more armed forces personnel than local people. This presented a scope for local producers of perishable items such as fruits and vegetables to cash in on.
But the inability of the terrain-handicapped local farmers to produce in large quantities and poor market linkage prevented them from competing with large-scale producers in other States such as Assam, Bihar and West Bengal.
