Govt initiates mega food park programme
Updated: Feb 12, 2014 02:05:25pm
New Delhi, Feb 12, (KNN) With an objective to provide state of the art infrastructure for food processing in the country, the Ministry of Food Processing Industries has proposed to set up five food clusters under the Mega Food Park Scheme (MFPS).
The clusters will have core processing facilities like testing laboratory, cleaning, grading, sorting and packing facilities, dry warehouses, specialized storage facilities including controlled atmosphere chambers, pressure ventilators, variable humidity stores, pre-cooling chambers, ripening chambers, cold chain infrastructure including reefer vans, packaging unit, irradiation facilities, steam sterilization units, steam generating units and food incubation cum development centres.
Toward this, the ministry has invited bids from financial institutions, organized retailers, processors, producers, farmer organisations and other related stakeholders to be service provider.
The primary objective of the MFPS is to provide adequate infrastructure facilities for food processing along the value chain from the farm to market.
The scheme will be demand driven pre marketed and would facilitate food processing units to meet environmental, safety and social standards.
The Scheme of Mega Food Park aims at providing a mechanism to link agricultural production to the market by bringing together farmers, processors and retailers so as to ensure maximizing value addition, minimizing wastages, increasing farmers’ income and creating employment opportunities particularly in rural sector.
The Mega Food Park Scheme is based on “Cluster” approach and envisages a well-defined agri/ horticultural-processing zone containing state-of-the art processing facilities with support infrastructure and well-established supply chain. (KNN Bureau)
The clusters will have core processing facilities like testing laboratory, cleaning, grading, sorting and packing facilities, dry warehouses, specialized storage facilities including controlled atmosphere chambers, pressure ventilators, variable humidity stores, pre-cooling chambers, ripening chambers, cold chain infrastructure including reefer vans, packaging unit, irradiation facilities, steam sterilization units, steam generating units and food incubation cum development centres.
Toward this, the ministry has invited bids from financial institutions, organized retailers, processors, producers, farmer organisations and other related stakeholders to be service provider.
The primary objective of the MFPS is to provide adequate infrastructure facilities for food processing along the value chain from the farm to market.
The scheme will be demand driven pre marketed and would facilitate food processing units to meet environmental, safety and social standards.
The Scheme of Mega Food Park aims at providing a mechanism to link agricultural production to the market by bringing together farmers, processors and retailers so as to ensure maximizing value addition, minimizing wastages, increasing farmers’ income and creating employment opportunities particularly in rural sector.
The Mega Food Park Scheme is based on “Cluster” approach and envisages a well-defined agri/ horticultural-processing zone containing state-of-the art processing facilities with support infrastructure and well-established supply chain. (KNN Bureau)
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