NEW DELHI: Highlighting growing investment and employment opportunities in Assam, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on September 29 cited a Rs 778 crore investment and the expansion of local value chains from agricultural produce to consumer products.
Taking to social media platform X, Sarma said the growth of investment in Assam was creating more opportunities for local employment and enabling products originating in the state to reach markets beyond its borders.
Highlighting the connection between agriculture and industry, the Chief Minister said the journey of a potato grown in Assam’s ¿elds to a packet of Lay’s available on consumers’ shelves represented the kind of economic opportunity the state was seeking to create.
“From a potato growing in our ¿elds to a packet of Lay’s on your shelf. That’s what opportunity looks like – Made in Assam, reaching beyond Assam,” he said.
The post underlined the State government’s emphasis on strengthening local production and creating an ecosystem in which agricultural output can feed into large-scale processing and manufacturing.
The Rs 778 crore investment highlighted by CM Sarma is also signi¿cant in the context of Assam’s eႇorts to attract private investment and expand employment opportunities outside traditional sectors.
The Government has been promoting the state as an emerging investment destination, with a focus on manufacturing, food processing, infrastructure and other industries. Sarma’s remarks also pointed to the potential of linking Assam’s farmers with organised food-processing and consumer-product supply chains. Such linkages can create additional avenues for value addition within the state while enabling locally produced agricultural commodities to access wider markets.
