Maharashtra: Amazon opens new centre for procuring recent produce immediately from farmers

Amazon Retail India Monday introduced the opening of a brand new “farmer collection centre” in Maharashtra, the place recent fruit and veggies could be immediately bought from farmers for patrons.

The new centre at Kunjirwadi would be the fifth within the western state after one every in Manchar, Nasik, Wai and Ratnagiri.

Amazon’s farmer assortment centres, as per the official launch, have temperature-controlled provide chain infrastructure the place fruit and veggies, after procurement from framers, are sorted, graded, geotagged, and packaged in several sizes in sustainable packaging and trans-shipped to Amazon Fresh success facilities.

Amazon Retail India mentioned with the 5 farmer centres, it’s having a community of over 4,500 farmers and Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) and is ready to promote 120 immediately farm-sourced recent fruit and veggies.

“Our collection centers are also the nodal point for extending services beyond procurement, which includes various training programs, providing agri inputs support to enhance farmers productivity, knowledge sharing and enable technology adoption,” Rajesh Prasad, class chief, Amazon Retail India mentioned as quoted within the launch.