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Odisha’s first Mega Food Park inaugurated; has facilities of fully operational industrial sheds for SMEs

Updated: Jun 01, 2017 10:44:29am
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Odisha’s first Mega Food Park inaugurated; has facilities of fully operational industrial sheds for SMEs

New Delhi, June 1 (KNN) Odisha’s first Mega Food Park, M/s MITS Mega Food Park Pvt Ltd, has been inaugurated today by Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Minister of Food Processing Industries at Rayagada.

The food park has facilities of fully operational industrial sheds for SMEs along with developed industrial plots for lease to food processing units.

This is the 7th Mega Food Park operationalized in the last 3 years by the present government.

Badal said that the Mega Food Park will leverage an additional investment of about Rs. 250 crore in 25-30 food processing units in the park and generate a turnover of about Rs. 450-500 Crore annually.

The Park will also provide direct and indirect employment to 5000 people and benefit about 25000 farmers in the CPC and PPC catchment areas.

To give a major boost to the food processing sector by adding value and reducing food wastage at each stage of the supply chain with particular focus on perishables, Ministry of Food Processing Industries is implementing Mega Food Park Scheme in the country.

Mega Food Parks create modern infrastructure facilities for food processing along the value chain from farm to market with strong forward and backward linkages through a cluster based approach.

Common facilities and enabling infrastructure is created at Central Processing Centre and facilities for primary processing and storage is created near the farm in the form of Primary Processing Centers (PPCs) and Collection Centers (CCs).

Under the Scheme, Government of India provides financial assistance upto Rs. 50.00 Crore per Mega Food Park project.

Speaking on the occasion, Badal said that the Mega Food Park has been set up in 50.05 acre of land at the cost of Rs. 80.17crore.

Government of India has provided a financial assistance of Rs. 50.00 Crore to the project.

The food park is having facilities of fully operational industrial sheds for SMEs, developed industrial plots for lease to food processing units, Rice Processing Complex of 12 TPH, Dry Ware-House of 10,000 MT, Cold Store of 2500 MT, Multi Fruit Processing facility and other food processing facilities etc.

The Park also has a common administrative building for office and other uses by the entrepreneurs and 6 Primary Processing Centres (PPCs) at Kashipur, Padampur, Umerkote, Koraput, Digapahandi and Khordha having facilities for primary processing and storage near the farms.

Minister for food Processing Industries said that the modern infrastructure for food processing created at MITS Mega Food Park will benefit the farmers, growers, processors and consumers of Odisha and prove to be a big boost to the growth of the food processing sector in the state of Odisha.

The Mega Food Park will benefit not only the people of Rayagada but also the people of adjoining districts of Nabarangpura, Ganjam and Khordha.

On this occasion, Dharmendra Pradhan, MoS (I/C) of Petroleum & Natural Gas and Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, MoS (Food Processing Industries), Government of India, were also present.

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