Government takes steps to improve salt farming industry

The government is keen to revive the salt farming industry and has, therefore, established model salt farms at Nawa in Rajasthan, Ganjam in Odisha, and Markanam in Tamil Nadu, a government release states.
 
Through this, the government aims at educating salt manufacturers and improving the quality of salt to meet global standards and to compete in the international market.
 
Whereas the model salt farms at Nawa and Ganjam have been established in collaboration with the concerned state government and the Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute (CSMCRI), Bhavnagar, the one at Markanam has been established in collaboration with CSMCRI, Bhavnagar. 
 
Further, training is also being imparted to salt workers for skill upgradation. As many as 28 such training programmes have been organised in the last three years, thereby benefitting 780 salt workers and 40 master trainers, it added.