On 7 August 2015 3 more food processing industries in Odisha have been accorded the status of designated food parks by Ministry of Food Processing Industries.
Three industrial estates that got food park status are:
- Agro Industrial Estate for maize, Nabarangpur
- Jagatpur industrial estate in Cuttack
- Mancheswar industrial estate in Bhubaneswar.
In June 2015 The Union ministry had accorded the status of designated food park to MITS mega Food Park, Khordha mega Food Park and sea Food Park at Deras in the state but rejected to accord the above said Industrial Estates with designated Food Parks.The number of Food Parks in Odisha has now gone to 6 and now all these parks will be eligible to access concessional credit from the Rs 2,000 crore fund available with Nabard.
Mega Food Park:
- Mega Food Park is a flagship program of the Ministry of Food Processing Industries which proposes to develop a demand driven premarketed model, which also has a strong backward and forward linkages and sustainable supply chain.
- Its prime objective is to facilitate establishment of integrated value chain, creating infrastructure for farm level primary processing centre-cum-cold chain in identified clusters.
- It aims to promote the processing of intermediate products, to carter cutting edge technologies and testing facilities.Recently central govt. has announced to set 42 Mega Food Parks in coming next 4 years.
3 food processing industries in Odisha
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