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8/13/2015 Objectives and Guidelines for Establishing Mega Food Parks http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx 1/1 31July2015 18:01 IST Press Information Bureau Government of India Ministry of Food Processing Industries Objectives and Guidelines for Establishing Mega Food Parks The primary objective of establishing Mega Food Parks is to provide modern infrastructure facilities for the food processing along the value chain from farm to market with a cluster based approach based on a hub and spokes model. It includes creation of infrastructure for primary processing and storage near the farm in the form of Primary Processing Centres (PPCs) and Collection Centres (CCs) and common facilities and enabling infrastructure like roads, electricity, water, ETP facilities etc. at Central Processing Centre (CPC). These PPCs and CCs act as aggregation and storage points to feed raw material to the processing units located in the CPC. These are demanddriven projects and would facilitate food processing units to meet environmental, safety and social standards. Each Mega Food Park is likely to attract investment of about Rs. 100 Crore in common facilities and leverage an additional investment of about Rs. 250 Crore. Expected annual turnover of each MFP is about Rs. 500 Crore. It is likely to benefit about 6000 farmers/ producers directly and 2500030000 farmers indirectly. Out of the total 40 (Forty) Mega Food Parks approved for setting up in the country, 23 (Twenty Three) Parks have been accorded Final Approval and are at various stages of implementation. Of these, 5 (Five) Mega Food Parks, one each at Haridwar (Uttarkhand), Chittoor (Andhra Pradesh), Fazilka (Punjab), Tumkur (Karnataka) and Nalbari (Assam) have become operational. Remaining 17 Mega Food Park projects have been accorded Inprinciple approval and are in the process of meeting conditions of Final approval. Report of the evaluation of impact of the Scheme of Mega Food Parks recently submitted by Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) indicates that overall socioeconomic impact of the operational Mega Food Parks for catchment area is highly positive. Setting up these Parks has resulted in reduction of wastage of agricultural and horticultural produce through increased sourcing from farmers, increase in their shelflife through primary processing like, sorting, grading etc., better storage, availability of other modern common infrastructure facilities and value addition through food processing, benefit to the farmers by enhanced level of procurement, realisation of better prices of produce, elimination/reduction in the layers of the middlemen, training and technology transfer, benefit to Industry by helping in value addition by providing modern common infrastructure facilities, induction of advanced technology and exporting opportunities, benefit to local population through full/partial direct and indirect employment generation, benefit to traders through increase in product range and better quality and to consumers through availability of better products at lesser price. Expression of Interest (EoI) had been invited by the Government on 10.02.2014 for setting up Mega Food Parks in the country with the last date of 31.07.2014. In response, total 72 proposals had been received from various States. These proposals have been appraised by observing a thorough and transparent procedure and based upon the merit, 15 selected proposals have been accorded Inprinciple approval on 31.03.2015. This information was given by the Minister of State for Food Processing Industries Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today. ********* RC/nb

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8/13/2015 Objectives and Guidelines for Establishing Mega Food Parks

http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx 1/1

31­July­2015 18:01 IST

Press Information Bureau Government of India

Ministry of Food Processing Industries

Objectives and Guidelines for Establishing Mega Food Parks 

The primary objective of establishing Mega Food Parks is to provide modern infrastructure facilities for the food processingalong  the value  chain  from  farm  to market with  a  cluster  based  approach based on  a  hub  and  spokes model.  It  includescreation of infrastructure for primary processing and storage near the farm in the form of Primary Processing Centres (PPCs)and Collection Centres (CCs) and common facilities and enabling infrastructure like roads, electricity, water, ETP facilitiesetc. at Central Processing Centre (CPC). These PPCs and CCs act as aggregation and storage points to feed raw material tothe processing units  located  in  the CPC. These  are  demand­driven projects  and would  facilitate  food processing units  tomeet environmental, safety and social standards. Each Mega Food Park is likely to attract investment of about Rs. 100 Crorein common facilities and leverage an additional investment of about Rs. 250 Crore. Expected annual turnover of each MFPis about Rs. 500 Crore. It is likely to benefit about 6000 farmers/ producers directly and 25000­30000 farmers indirectly. 

Out of  the  total 40 (Forty) Mega Food Parks approved for setting up  in  the country, 23 (Twenty Three) Parks have beenaccorded Final Approval  and  are  at  various  stages  of  implementation. Of  these,  5  (Five) Mega Food Parks,  one  each  atHaridwar  (Uttarkhand),  Chittoor  (Andhra  Pradesh),  Fazilka  (Punjab),  Tumkur  (Karnataka)  and  Nalbari  (Assam)  havebecome  operational.  Remaining  17  Mega  Food  Park  projects  have  been  accorded  In­principle  approval  and  are  in  theprocess of meeting conditions of Final approval. 

Report of the evaluation of impact of the Scheme of Mega Food Parks recently submitted by Indian Council for Research onInternational  Economic  Relations  (ICRIER)  indicates  that  overall  socio­economic  impact  of  the  operational Mega  FoodParks for catchment area is highly positive. Setting up these Parks has resulted in reduction of wastage of agricultural andhorticultural produce through increased sourcing from farmers, increase in their shelf­life through primary processing like,sorting, grading etc., better storage, availability of other modern common infrastructure facilities and value addition throughfood  processing,  benefit  to  the  farmers  by  enhanced  level  of  procurement,  realisation  of  better  prices  of  produce,elimination/reduction  in  the  layers of  the middle­men,  training and  technology  transfer,  benefit  to  Industry by helping  invalue  addition  by  providing  modern  common  infrastructure  facilities,  induction  of  advanced  technology  and  exportingopportunities, benefit  to  local population through full/partial direct and indirect employment generation, benefit  to  tradersthrough increase in product range and better quality and to consumers through availability of better products at lesser price. 

Expression  of  Interest  (EoI)  had  been  invited  by  the Government  on  10.02.2014  for  setting  up Mega Food Parks  in  thecountry  with  the  last  date  of  31.07.2014.  In  response,  total  72  proposals  had  been  received  from  various  States.  Theseproposals have been appraised by observing a  thorough and  transparent procedure and based upon  the merit, 15  selectedproposals have been accorded In­principle approval on 31.03.2015. 

This information was given by the Minister of State for Food Processing Industries Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti in a written replyin Rajya Sabha today. 

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