Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary interacts with members of Singapore companies

Enterprise Singapore is a statutory board under the Ministry of Trade and Industry in Singapore. The webinar was moderated by SabrinaHo, Regional Director of Enterprise Singapore.

The companies included representatives from Advanced Produce Centre Development Pvt. Ltd. (APC), Agrocorp, Capita Land (Ascott), Nanyang Polytechnic, Skill SG Venture (SSGV), ALLIN Technologies, etc.

The Singapore-based companies expressed their interest to invest in Assam in areas like food processing, hospitality sector, infrastructure development, industrial town development, start-ups, airline catering, skill training, organic farming and marketing.

Commissioner OinamSarankumar Singh, Secretaries Manjula Saikia Bhuyan and PabitraKhaund and other senior officials were present in the webinar.

A webinar on 'Food Processing Ecosystem in India' was also organized by Ministry of Food Processing Industries, Government of India and Invest India. Participating states included Punjab, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh and Assam. Investors from 18 foreign countries were also participated in the webinar. Each state gave a presentation on the available infrastructure including land, water and power, fiscal incentives and policies for attracting investors to their respective States.

Representing Assam, Minister Patowary projected the locational advantage of Assam as positioned at the center of South East Asia, ASEAN and BBN countries. He also informed that Assam has a surplus of fruits and vegetables and has been exporting to the Middle Eastern countries of Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Kuwait,in the past few years.

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