date:Jun 28, 2021
rom lower transportation cost, the other advantage is that the quality of the fruit would still be good at the destination as it takes only 38 to 40 hours by train to reach Delhi. By road, it takes around 70 hours. Often, mangoes arrived rotten when transported in trucks.
Ashok Kumar Verma, Bengaluru divisional railway manager, SWR, also said that transporting produce by Kisan Rail was cheaper and faster than by road. Kisan Rail was announced in the 2020-21 Union Budget. The primary objective o