Article: India: Bangalore firm plans retail chain for farm machinery.

Byline: sanjayV03

Agri-tech firm Ratnagiri Impex will set up a retail chain in rural India to market farming machinery such as sprayers, a top company official said.

"We plan to set up about 300 agri-marts through the franchise route as a one-stop solution for farmers, especially small and marginal farmers," Ratnagiri Impex chairman and managing director S.A. Vasudev Murthy told IANS.

The decade-old Bangalore-based Impex has tied up with global agri-tech product manufacturers such as Oleo-Mac SPA, Cifarelli SPA and GF SRL of Italy, Briggs and Stratton of the US and Alrite of South Africa to import machinery for tilling, sowing and harvesting ...

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