date:Dec 10, 2012
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Meanwhile PepsiCo says that it will double the number of potatoes it purchases from Indian growers over the next five years.
We are working with about 24,000 farmers and last year we had procured about 2.4 lakh tonnes of potatoes through contract farming. This programme would continue and we are now looking at expanding the programme in order to double the procurement over the next five years, Vivek Bharati, PepsiCo Indias executive director, said.
Pepsico has contract farming arrangements