Lockdown blues: King of fruits Mango now travels via India Post

After effectively ferrying clinical consignments in its legendary purple vans, India Write-up is now supporting mango growers to access market amid transportation disruptions owing to lockdown.

In a to start with work in Gujarat Circle, India Write-up has started off ferrying Alphonso mango from the heartland Valsad district to Surat employing its mail motor company. Initial consignment of 900 kg of Alphonso mango dispatched from Vapi in Valsad and sent in Surat.

“Presently owing to lockdown, wholesale traders are purchasing directly from the mango orchards. But transportation remained a challenge for them. Due to the fact we have an proven logistics network by means of all the districts, these people today got engaged with us and we started off taking mangoes along with our mails in the motor company,” Ashok Kumar Poddar, Main Write-up Grasp Typical (CPMG), Gujarat Circle explained to Businessline. The company will be extended to across Gujarat and Mumbai by means of the highway network.

India Write-up takes advantage of its Mail Motor Provider and requires the autos appropriate up to mango orchards, from exactly where they decide on up the consignments and provide to the destined spots such as warehouses or bulk purchaser premises.

“These autos go on behalf of the traders, who convey to us from which orchard the mango has to be picked-up. And we provide it to the spots they suggest,” he added.

Notably, many difficulties were being confronted in commercial transportation. When some declined the company to purple zones of Covid-19, some others confronted problem in arranging motorists owing to mass exodus of migrants. There were being issues in inter-district and inter-point out movement for commercial autos as perfectly. In such a circumstance, several instances transporters overcharged or declined the company to traders or farmers.

“This the well timed support for consumers and farmers. The mango harvest has started and the fruit getting perishable it was significant to transportation it at the appropriate time to the marketplaces,” he claimed.

More and additional buyers are now approaching India Write-up for the company. There are ample motor vehicle arrangements even for larger sized consignments of about 2-3 tonnes of mango. The freight billed is nominal ₹10 per kg for scaled-down consignments and there are lower price for larger sized shipments.

“We will quickly link Talala Market in Junagadh – regarded for its Kesar wide variety of mango and start out providing to other pieces of the State and to Mumbai as perfectly,” added Poddar.

Discovering Cotton transports

Poddar also knowledgeable that amid disrupted commercial transportation circumstance, India Write-up is also discovering a logistic alternative for Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) for transporting cotton from the procurement facilities to the warehouses.

“The talks are at the preliminary stage as there is no urgency at existing. But we are discussing with CCI to indicator a memorandum of being familiar with (MoU) for such a company,” he added.

CCI procures cotton from farmers at the bare minimum assistance selling price (MSP) costs and stores the quantities at its designated warehouses.