The interested cottage industries owners may visit their nearest Office of the Agriculture Department for more details and obtain application forms, according to a press release.Under the Union Government’s Scheme of Fund for Regeneration of Traditional Industries (SFRTI), the State Agriculture Department has invited applications from eligible cottage industries and other traditional industries for availing loans under development and revival plan.
The scheme will have three interventions — Soft Intervention, which include study travel, market promotion, technical advancement etc.; Hard Intervention, which includes establishment of raw materials bank, godown facilities, processing, product value addition etc.; Thematic Intervention, which includes Brand development, marketing, finding new markets, Research etc.