As part of FICCI FLO’s Agro & Food Processing Initiative, the FLO delegation’s visit to Quinta do Vallado in Portugal’s Douro Valley offered an experiential understanding of how an agricultural product can move through the entire value chain — from cultivation and production to processing, branding, hospitality and market positioning.
The experience brought alive an important focus of the initiative: value addition beyond the farm gate and the opportunities that emerge when agriculture is connected with processing, enterprise, tourism and strong consumer brands.
Through such global learning experiences, FICCI FLO continues to expose women entrepreneurs to ideas and business models that can inspire innovation, diversification and greater value creation back home in India.
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