Expected to generate employment for 15000 people
Twenty-one projects under the Scheme for Integrated Cold Chain and Value Addition were approved by Inter-Ministerial Approval Committee (IMAC) meeting chaired by Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Minister for Food Processing Industries, on November 10, 2020, leveraging investment worth Rs 443 crore and supported with a grant of Rs 189 crore.
Eight projects leveraging investment worth Rs 62 crore with grants of Rs 15 crore under the BFL Scheme were approved in another meeting chaired by Union FPI Minister.
Launched with the aim of benefitting farmers and consumers, Tomar urged the officers to expedite the implementation of approved projects. It is estimated that the 21 projects are likely to generate employment for nearly 12,600 people and benefit 2,00,592 farmers. The projects are spread across the 10 states of Andhra, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Kerala, Nagaland, Punjab, Telangana, Uttarkhand, and Uttar Pradesh. The Scheme for Integrated Cold Chain and Value addition infrastructure aims at arresting post-harvest losses of horticulture and non-horticulture produce and providing remunerative price to farmers.
Eight projects approved in another meeting are likely to generate employment for nearly 2,500 people. The objective of the scheme is to provide effective and seamless backward and forward integration for the processed food industry by plugging the gaps in the supply chain in terms of availability of raw material and linkages with the market.
