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France has agreed to collaborate with India in developing its food processing sector. It has evinced interest in setting up a mega food park. This emerged during a meeting between the French Minister of Agriculture, Food Processing and Fisheries, Mr. Nicolas Forissier and his Indian counterpart, Shri Subodh Kant Sahay, here today.
Shri Sahay sought French expertise in setting up food parks and cold storage facilities in India. He said France has a long experience in setting up food processing factories. He said India and France can jointly set up enterprises in this sector in the third world countries. Shri Sahay said the matter will be firmed up in the Indo-French Joint Committee Meeting on Agriculture in New Delhi tomorrow. The Minister invited French industrialists to lend their expertise to India in producing world-class wine as a plenty of raw material is available here.
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