With an aim to reduce food wastage and double farmers’ income, the food processing industries ministry will soon launch an umbrella programme ‘Scheme for Agro-Marine produce Processing and Development of Agro-clusters’ (SAMPADA) for food processing sector with an outlay of Rs 6,000 crore to integrate current and new schemes.
Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal has said that her ministry would soon take up the matter with the cabinet for the approval of scheme. She noted that it will include ongoing schemes such as mega food parks and cold chain projects as well as three new schemes that they will launch. Adding further, she said that under the new scheme, they will provide up to Rs 10 crore of subsidy grant for creating infrastructure at each of these clusters so that seamless transfer of food products from producing to consuming centres becomes a reality.
The minister also emphasized that the government has so far sanctioned 42 mega food parks and 234 cold chain projects with 139 lakh tonnes of preserving and processing capacity of agro-produce worth Rs 35,000 crore. She said that the post-harvest losses is estimated at Rs 92,000 crore annually and added that these food parks and cold chains would help in cutting this wastage. She also noted that the government is taking steps to boost food processing sector as part of its objective to bring down post-harvest losses preferably to zero level, provide quality food to consumers at cheaper price and for doubling of farmers' income.
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