Prime Minister Modi in his first parliament speech said that we don’t have real time agri produce data. He emphasized on technology revolution in agriculture with the help of already successful India IT sector. Now the first feeler working towards some real time data, the ministry of food processing is planning to develop a food map to help identify food clusters across the country.
Harsimrat Kaur Badal, minister for food processing industries said the food map will not only help identify strengths in terms of crop strength, production, processing, but also help the ministry to ensure the desired interventions to expand the Indian food export market and develop brand India in CII meet.
Kaur also said the food processing ministry is working to devise new schemes to provide last mile delivery to farmers, which include ‘farm to shelf’ schemes like setting up mobile processing vans which could reach out to farmers, and setting up small food processing units providing business incubation, training and a processing centre at village level so that farmers’ produce is processed and reach markets.
Minister also mentioned government top priority to curve the inflation which is directly related to processing of agro produce. Boosting food processing is also on top of the agenda, followed by mitigating post harvest fruit and vegetable losses and driving and accelerating food processing industries growth and to de-regulate and simplify governmental systems, processes and clearances that delay food processing projects, causing huge losses to the companies putting up projects.
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