Bhubaneswar: September 27: There will be a ‘Vegetable wholesale trading centre’ near Patrapada of Bhubaneswar soon. Government of Odisha has already identified about 10 acres of land near Patrapada for the said purpose.
Official sources said, ‘The new vegetable trading centre would accommodate an agricultural mall to facilitate space for the farmers of all 30 districts of the state to exhibit their agri products’. The official further said, it is necessary to move the retail shops selling pulses, rice and wheat to Patrapada as because the existing Unit-1 market is becoming over-crowded and congested during peak hours of the day.
The new market complex will have facilities like cold storage, wide roads for parking of vehicles, banks and other auxiliary commercial establishments. The proposed site is under Forest Development Corporation and soon it will be handed over to BDA. If everything goes well, Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) would complete construction work of the proposed complex within six months.
