objectives and guidelines for establishing mega food parks.pdf
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8/13/2015 Objectives and Guidelines for Establishing Mega Food Parks
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31July2015 18:01 IST
Press Information Bureau Government of India
Ministry of Food Processing Industries
Objectives and Guidelines for Establishing Mega Food Parks
The primary objective of establishing Mega Food Parks is to provide modern infrastructure facilities for the food processingalong the value chain from farm to market with a cluster based approach based on a hub and spokes model. It includescreation of infrastructure for primary processing and storage near the farm in the form of Primary Processing Centres (PPCs)and Collection Centres (CCs) and common facilities and enabling infrastructure like roads, electricity, water, ETP facilitiesetc. at Central Processing Centre (CPC). These PPCs and CCs act as aggregation and storage points to feed raw material tothe processing units located in the CPC. These are demanddriven projects and would facilitate food processing units tomeet environmental, safety and social standards. Each Mega Food Park is likely to attract investment of about Rs. 100 Crorein common facilities and leverage an additional investment of about Rs. 250 Crore. Expected annual turnover of each MFPis about Rs. 500 Crore. It is likely to benefit about 6000 farmers/ producers directly and 2500030000 farmers indirectly.
Out of the total 40 (Forty) Mega Food Parks approved for setting up in the country, 23 (Twenty Three) Parks have beenaccorded Final Approval and are at various stages of implementation. Of these, 5 (Five) Mega Food Parks, one each atHaridwar (Uttarkhand), Chittoor (Andhra Pradesh), Fazilka (Punjab), Tumkur (Karnataka) and Nalbari (Assam) havebecome operational. Remaining 17 Mega Food Park projects have been accorded Inprinciple approval and are in theprocess of meeting conditions of Final approval.
Report of the evaluation of impact of the Scheme of Mega Food Parks recently submitted by Indian Council for Research onInternational Economic Relations (ICRIER) indicates that overall socioeconomic impact of the operational Mega FoodParks for catchment area is highly positive. Setting up these Parks has resulted in reduction of wastage of agricultural andhorticultural produce through increased sourcing from farmers, increase in their shelflife through primary processing like,sorting, grading etc., better storage, availability of other modern common infrastructure facilities and value addition throughfood processing, benefit to the farmers by enhanced level of procurement, realisation of better prices of produce,elimination/reduction in the layers of the middlemen, training and technology transfer, benefit to Industry by helping invalue addition by providing modern common infrastructure facilities, induction of advanced technology and exportingopportunities, benefit to local population through full/partial direct and indirect employment generation, benefit to tradersthrough increase in product range and better quality and to consumers through availability of better products at lesser price.
Expression of Interest (EoI) had been invited by the Government on 10.02.2014 for setting up Mega Food Parks in thecountry with the last date of 31.07.2014. In response, total 72 proposals had been received from various States. Theseproposals have been appraised by observing a thorough and transparent procedure and based upon the merit, 15 selectedproposals have been accorded Inprinciple approval on 31.03.2015.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Food Processing Industries Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti in a written replyin Rajya Sabha today.
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