(a) whether the Government has any proposal to engage individual/private godowns in Food Processing Sector;
(b) if so, the details thereof, State-wise;
(c) if not, the other flagship schemes of the Ministry in this regard; and
(d) the details of the status of the projects being initiated so far, in PPP mode in the last three years?
THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES
(SADHVI NIRANJAN JYOTI)
(a) to (c): No, Madam. There is no such proposal to engage private godowns in Food Processing Sector. However, Government is implementing a Central Sector Scheme – PRADHAN MANTRI KISAN SAMPADA YOJANA - (PMKSY) The various schemes implemented under PMKSY are (i) Mega Food Parks ; (ii) Integrated Cold Chain and Value Addition Infrastructure; (iii) Creation/Expansion of Food Processing & Preservation Capacities; (iv) Infrastructure for Agro-processing Clusters; (v) Creation of Backward and Forward Linkages; (vi) Food Safety and Quality Assurance Infrastructure and (vii) Human Resources and Institutions.
PMKSY is a comprehensive package resulting in creation of modern infrastructure with efficient supply chain management from farm gate to retail outlet. Not only it provides a big boost to the growth of food processing sector in the country but also help in providing better prices to farmers and is a big step towards doubling of farmers income, creating huge employment opportunities especially in the rural areas, reducing wastage of agricultural produce, increasing the processing level and enhancing the export of the processed foods.
The Mega Food Park Scheme (MFPS) aims at providing modern infrastructure facilities for food processing along the value chain from farm to market. The Scheme functions on a Hub and spoke model. It includes creation of Infrastructure for primary processing and storage near the farm gate at Primary Processing Centers (PPCs), Collection Centres (CCs) and common facilities and enabling infrastructure at Central Processing Centre. The food processing units, under the scheme, would be located at Central Processing Centre (CPC) with need based common infrastructure required for processing, packaging, environmental protection systems, quality control labs, trade facilitation centres, etc.
(d): The details of the Abattoir projects initiated in PPP mode in last three years under the Scheme of Setting up/Modernization of Abattoirs is given in the statement at Annexure.
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