Schemes To Promote Food Processing Industries In India

To offer driving force to the sustenance transforming commercial ventures in the nation, the accompanying Central Sector and Centrally Sponsored Schemes have been taken up amid twelfth Five Year Plan:

1. Scheme for Infrastructure Development (Mega Food Parks, Cold Chain and Abattoirs).
2. Centrally Sponsored Scheme – National Mission on Food Processing (NMFP).
3. Scheme for Quality Assurance, Codex Standards, R&D and Promotional Activities.
4. Scheme for Strengthening of Institutions.

With a specific end goal to bridle the capability of worth expansion from the provincially accessible crude material by State/ UT Governments, Ministry of Food Processing Industries (Mofpi) has propelled a Centrally Sponsored Scheme - National Mission on Food Processing (NMFP) in the twelfth Plan (2012-17). All the State/ UT Governments have been enabled under the Mission to welcome the applications and authorization stipend in-support to the qualified beneficiaries.

Service of Food Processing Industries (Mofpi) not, one or the other sets up the cool stockpiles on its own nor gives any help to the business visionaries for this reason. Notwithstanding, other Government organizations like National Horticulture Board (NHB), National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) under Ministry of Agriculture and Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) under M/o Commerce give monetary help to setting up of icy stockpiles under their separate schemes.

Service of Food Processing Industries (Mofpi) normally connects with State Governments, Industry Associations and ambitious people through classes/ gatherings/ workshops/ feature conferencing and so forth., to know the issues being confronted by them furthermore to talk about the strategy progressions needed for improvement of nourishment transforming division in the nation. Real jumps confronted by ambitious people identify with unpredictable power supply, postpone in getting statutory clearances from State Governments, vacillations in costs of crude material. Mofpi has taken up these issues in its gatherings with State Governments.

Source Minister of State for Food Processing Industries Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan in a composed answer in the Lok Sabha.