Hosur International Auction Centre Inaugurated by Cm of Tamil Nadu

Hosur International Auction Ce ntre Inaugurated by CM o Ta ilnadu

Adecade old dream of Hosur Floriculture farmers has come true in 2019 –2020.

Honourable Chief Minister ofTamilnadu, E. Palaniswamy inaugurated the project by laying foundation on the 15th July 2020.

Around the year 2010, flowers growing area in Krishnagiri District increasedvastly and rapidly picking up exports market sharply. However, about 95% of the exports continue to happen through middlemen and farmers didn’trealize propervaluefortheirproduce. Farmers arrived at a point where an auction centre like IFAB–Bengaluru will help to overcome the challenges.

Since demonetization, floriculture industry has slowed down and farmers started sending requestletters to the State Horticulture Department and also to the government through media to help to revive the industry.

From 2018, Krishnagiri floriculture farmers conducted regular monthly meetings and arrived at an action plan. In 2019, farmers met exminister Balakrishna Reddy requestingan auction market in Hosur. He supportedand directed to Horticulture and Agribusiness departments to analyse the request.With the help of Mrs. Ramanageetha, Agri Finance and Agri Marketing, a DPR was finalised and submitted to the department.

Krishnagiri District Collector Prabakar IAS and JD Horticulture TC Kannan analysedDPR and forwarded to Tamilnadu Agriculture Principal SecretaryGagandeep Singh Bediand to Chiru, Agriculture Marketing Board.

The project location has been identified in Marasandiram village, Chennai –Bangalore highway which is about 7km from Hosur with excellent road connectivity.The same was reviewed and finalised by group of government officers, engineers and farmers.

Meanwhile, respected MP

Rajyashaba - KP Muniswamy, strongly recommend to Tamilnadu government to approve this project in the state assembly. Finally, the project was approved in 2019 budget under rule number 110.

We farmers heartfully thank everyone who has been instrumental in getting the project approval. In addition, Venkatachalam - District Councillor has been a great support from the beginning till date. Farmer representativesBala Shivaprasath (Director NHB), Ramu, Chinna Abbiya along with few other farmers the dream has come true.

Yet again it has been proved that Unity is Strength.

Project details:

Total Land Area: 7.68 Acres Project Cost: 20.20 Crores

HIAC will be the first project in India to auction flowers online and offline. The project includes auction hall, cold storages, pre cooling unit, grading hall, refer vans, solar power and many advance technologies built-in. HIAC can handle 5 lakh flowers per day. The construction work is in progress and expected to be completed by 2021. n