### Fast Summary
– A two-week training program titled “Transforming agriculture for Smallholders through Efficient Marketing” is being conducted by the National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE).
– Participants from 15 countries, including Ecuador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Iran, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritius, Nigeria, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe are attending.
– The programme focuses on agricultural marketing topics such as reforms in marketing models; agri-warehousing; national agricultural market; farmers markets; grading and assaying; contract farming; and institutional arrangements supporting agricultural production marketing.
– It is part of the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) initiative supported by india’s Ministry of External Affairs.
– Sagar Hanuman Singh (Director General at MANAGE) emphasized collaborative efforts globally to improve smallholder farmer outcomes and highlighted tools like Minimum Support Price (MSP),e-NAM platform for digital agriculture trading marketspace Farmer Producer Organisations among other supports.
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### Indian Opinion Analysis
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