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Central Govt is working on ambitious plan to save perishable food items: Badal

Updated: Jan 15, 2019 06:35:03am
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Central Govt is working on ambitious plan to save perishable food items: Badal

New Delhi, Jan 15 (KNN) Central government has already started working towards developing mechanism to ensure that states producing any item in excess are able to transport it to other states where there is a demand, said Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Union Cabinet Minister of Food Processing.

Badal was speaking at the inauguration of the second edition of Indus Food, India's official, export-focused Food & Beverage Trade Fair.

She added, “The government will get involved in this process and become facilitator to ensure that perishable items reach those involved in food processing industry.”

Supporting the above statement she said, “We have already tied up with organizations like NAFED to make this happen.”

The Centre is working on an ambitious plan address the problem of wastage of food and other perishable items by linking producing states with states which have demand for such items and also ensuring fast supply to food processing industry which will help in achieving the goal of doubling farmers' income, Badal said.

Badal said: "It was a matter of concern that we are being able to use just 10% of our produce in the food processing industry. Over 60% of our population is engaged in agriculture but we are unable to ensure proper storage of our produce due to lack of proper cold storage facilities.”

“If we are able to save our perishable food items it will help our farmers to get better income of their produce. We have also decided to procure directly from our farmers to end the menace of middlemen. We have started building mini cold chains for this. We are giving loans worth Rs.50 crore to build such mini cold chains," she said.

Supported by the Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Indus Food is the flagship global trade show to maximize business opportunities for F&B industry.

Indus Food has been developed as the World Supermarket, to enable rest of the world meet their F&B requirements.

While during Indus Food-I, the Trade Promotion Council of India (TPCI) had focused on creating an interaction of global buyers with the Indian commodity exporters, Indus Food-II is bringing about 800 international wholesale buyers, big sized food chains and governmental bodies from about 80 countries, and enabling them to decide which of the 500+ plus exhibitors covering 15 product zones they would like to meet.

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