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Food processing unit inaugurated in Madhya Pradesh

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Food processing unit inaugurated in Madhya Pradesh

  • Ministry of Food Processing Industries inaugurated a new unit of food processing in Morena, Madhya Pradesh.
  • The unit was inaugurated under the Cold Chain scheme of the Government.
  • The Ministry was celebrating Food Processing Week from September 6 to 12 under which it inaugurated several units across the country.

Cold Chain Scheme

  • Cold Chain, Value Addition, and Preservation Infrastructure is a central Government’s scheme launched in 2008.
  • It is a component of Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana (PMKSY).
  • The scheme was started to reduce post-harvest losses of horticulture and non-horticulture produce and provide remunerative prices to farmers for their produce.
  • The scheme aims to provide integrated cold chain and preservation infrastructure facilities, without any break, from the farm gate to the consumer.
  • Under it, an infrastructure facility is created for the entire supply chain, including pre-cooling, weighing, sorting, grading, packing facility, blast freezing, etc of agricultural produce.

Benefits to locals

  • The integrated cold chain project is set up by partnership/ proprietorship firms, companies, corporations, cooperatives, self-help groups (SHGs), farmer producer organizations (FPOs), NGOs, Central / State PSUs, etc.
  • As of September 2020, there are 8,186 cold storage with a capacity of 374.25 Lakh MT in the country for storing perishable horticulture produce like fruits and vegetables.
  • The unit will also provide direct and indirect employment to about 700 persons and benefit about 1,000 farmers in the Central Processing Centre (CPC) and Primary Processing Centers (PPC) catchment areas.
  • Recently, five processing units in Gujarat (3), Karnataka (1), and Assam (1) were also inaugurated.
  • The units not only provide employment and livelihood opportunities but also help in reducing food wastage.
  • Further, the unit also provides excellent state-of-the-art facilities such as packing machines, water treatment plants, water storage tanks, subsystems, fittings, etc.

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