In collaboration with the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT)

The Export Facilitation Cell (EFC) was launched by the Hon’ble Chief Minister, Neiphiu Rio on 17th November 2021 in Kohima, and an MoU was signed between the IDAN and IIFT. It is the first of its kind set up in the country, aside their New Delhi and Kolkata campuses. The EFC is set up at the IDAN in collaboration with North Eastern Council (NEC), Indian Institute of Foreign Trade and Centre for North East Studies (CeNEST) that will train the Entrepreneurs from all over the Nagaland, who will in-turn act as Master Trainers and train other entrepreneurs in their respective Districts.

The EFC can become a Centre of Excellence for Training, handholding and act as the Nodal point for linkage with corporate and export/import entities. The EFC is the first step towards institutionalizing a mechanism for the State to help the aspirational exporters establish partnerships, collaborations for export of local goods.

IIFT Kolkata Campus with the support of North Eastern Council (NEC) recently initiated CeNEST (Centre for North Eastern Studies) as a dedicated centre for the exclusive development of north-eastern States of India.

Young sculptor from Nagaland wins NE competition

Neivito Vitsu creates a clay model of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with depiction of development at the recently concluded 7th Northeast Youth Festival, 2024 held from February 26-29 in Agartala, Tripura.

Nagaland is now prized with a total of 4 Geographical Indication (GI) Tags, the latest being “Naga Cucumber”. Naga Cucumber is an agricultural product whose application for a GI Tag was filed by the North Eastern Regional Agricultural Marketing Corporation Limited (NERAMAC) on 10^th December 2018 and the product was certified on 14^th September 2021

The Nagaland Beekeeping and Honey Mission (NBHM) is today 15 years old. This undertaking of the state government has been instrumental in not only transforming the traditional method of beekeeping but also putting the brand— Nagaland Honey on the national map.  

It is a highly sought after produce from Nagaland, popular for the ‘organic’ branding it has earned over the past decade or so. But it has one big bottleneck to conquer— meeting demand.