Bihar Affairs
Bihar: Now, buy fresh vegetables from cooperative departments portal
The state cooperative department on Thursday launched a web portal www.tarkaarimart.in to supply locally grown fresh vegetables to the residents of the state capital and East Champaran district. Launching the webportal, cooperative department secretary Vandana Preyasi said the project was preponed to discourage people visiting vegetable markets putting their lives at risk.
The project aimed at providing fair price of their produce to the farmers and vegetables to the consumers at a reasonable rate compared to the open vegetable markets. It will also fulfill the much ambitious project Har thaali mein Bihari Tarkari, (vegetable grown in Bihar in each platter in the country)” she added.
Around 12,000 vegetable growers of Patna, Vaishali, Samastipur, Begusarai and have got registered with the primary vegetable cooperative Society set up at the panchayat level for collection and Marketing of the produce.