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The Ministry of Food Processing Industries is setting up food parks in different parts of the country. The idea is to help the small and medium entrepreneurs who find it difficult to invest in facilities like cold storage, warehouse, quality control laboratory and effluent treatment plants. These facilities are capital-intensive. A cluster of food processing units in such parks would not only be cost competitive but also have a better market orientation.
All implementing agencies are eligible to grant upto Rs.4 crore for common facilities such as continuous water and power supply, cold storage, warehousing, effluent treatment plant, quality control and analytical laboratory. Major processing facilities like food concentrate and pulp making units are also integral parts of a food park. The Ministry has so far sanctioned 45 food parks. These are located in Andhra Pradesh (1), Assam (1), Bihar (1), Chhattisgarh (1), Haryana (2), Jammu & Kashmir (3), Karnataka (3), Kerala (3), Madhya Pradesh (6), Maharashtra (5), Manipur (2), Mizoram (1), Orissa (1), Punjab (1), Rajasthan (3), Tamilnadu (1), Tripura (1), Uttar Pradesh (4) and West Bengal (5). Only 9 food parks are now partly operational.
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