Union Minister for Food Processing Industries, Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Monday inaugurated the Zoram Mega Food Park (MFP) at Mizoram through video conferencing. This park is Mizoram’s first large-scale food-processing infrastructure.
Rameswar Teli, Minister of State for Food Processing Industries and Dr Jitendra Singh, Minister of State for Development of North Eastern Region, also attended the event virtually.
So far, a total of 88 MoFPI supported projects have been sanctioned in the North Eastern Region and 41 have been implemented, said the Minister speaking at the virtual event.
She added that projects worth Rs. 1000 Crores approximately have been sanctioned with a subsidy support of over Rs. 520 Crores. She said that 88 projects when fully completed would create processing and preservation capacity for 8.66 Lakh MT to handle agricultural produce worth Rs. 2,166 Crores.
The minister also said that the modern infrastructure for food processing prepared at the MFP will be beneficial for the farmers, growers, processors and consumers of Mizoram and adjoining areas immensely. This shall prove to be a big boost to the growth of the food processing sector in the state of Mizoram.
With a view to make India a resilient food economy and the Food Factory of the World, the government has made Food Processing a major thrust area of ‘Make in India’, she added.
Currently, 18 Mega Food Park Projects are under implementation in various states of the country. 19 Mega Food Parks have already become functional in the states. 6 of them are in the North eastern region. 2 MFPs in North eastern Region are operational at Assam and Mizoram.
Under the Mega Food Park Scheme, the central government facilitates financial assistance up-to Rs. 50.00 Crore per Mega Food Park project.
The Ministry of Food Processing announced about this inauguration was announced on the 17th June.
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