From Our Special Correspondent
New Delhi: Minister for Animal Husbandry and Veterinary, Deborah C Marak, on Friday landed in China heading a five-member delegation from the State to attend the World Dairy Expo & Summit beginning on Saturday.
The three-day World Dairy Expo & Summit is the premier annual event in China’s dairy industry. Delegates who attend the grand occasion each year include thousands of professionals in dairy production and cow breeding enterprises from home and over 20 countries aboard, compounded by purchasers, government officials, experts, and reporters.
This event is rotationally held in different cities in China and this time being organised in Nanchang. During the event a variety of professional seminars will be held together with the Expo and the Summit.
With an exhibition area of 20,000 square meters, the Expo focuses on the entire chain of dairy production, from cow breeding and farm facilities to processing and packing equipments, ingredients, and dairy products.
It is claimed to be the largest and most influential trade platform in China, attracting international and domestic top enterprises in various dairy fields, official sources said.
Latest and comprehensive industry information will be brought to participants through a series of seminars, which is blessed with the involvement of excellent scholars home and abroad, outstanding entrepreneurs, government authorities, and international associations, the sources added.
Marak is accompanied by Parliamentary Secretary KC Khyriem and four other officials.
Chief Minister Dr Mukul Sangma was originally scheduled to attend the programme, but had cancelled the same.
