date:May 17, 2013
of which 12,000-15,000 had been sold.
JC Sharma, managing director, HPMC, said universal cartons had a packaging capacity of 20kg, a design which aimed to prevent growers from losing out.
Usually, growers are paid on the basis of boxes. On paper, weight would be 20kg, but in reality it exceeded 30kg often. Somewhere, growers are at loss, he added.
However, after discussion between department and growers, the department has decided not to make use of universal carton mandatory, he added.
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