Lucknow, July 29 (KNN) Inviting investors to invest in Food Processing Sector, Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya said this sector has the highest potential of trade and employment and will help the state to make a turnaround.

While addressing a session on the Food Processing Industry during the Second Ground Breaking ceremony, he said that “the government will not only provide good infrastructure to the investors of food processing sector but will also ensure their security and wellbeing.”

This sector has vast prospect for capital investment, employment generation and augmenting rural income, he added.

In India so far as production of food grains, horticultural crops and milk is concerned Uttar Pradesh occupies a prominent place because of a huge market, low production cost, human resource and sufficient availability of raw material, said the Minister. (KNN/ LM)