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Centre prepares Vision 2015 document for food processing industries | The Union Government on Thursday informed the Lok Sabha
that the vision document 2015 has been prepared in order to increase the level of processing and to promote food processing industries to exploit both the domestic
and international market potential for processed food products. In a written statement to the lower house, the Union Food Processing Industries Minister Subhodh Kanth
Sahay said: "The vision document envisages tripling the size of the processed
food sector by increasing the level of processing of perishables from 6 percent
to 20 percent value addition from 20 percent to 35 percent and share in global
food trade from 1.5 percent to 3 percent by 2015." The minister also informed
the members, that the government has approved an integrated strategy vision to
promote agribusiness, strategy and action plan for the food-processing sector.
In his reply, Sahay said the level of processing of fruits and vegetables in the
country is estimated at 2.20 percent. "The low level of fruit and vegetable processing
is due to non-availability of processable varieties of raw materials at right
quantity and quality, seasonable nature of industry, lack of adequate post-harvest
infrastructure such as lack of cold chain facilities, transportation, proper storage
facilities etc," he informed. It is estimated that the processing level in the
food-processing sector has gone up from 6 percent to 10 percent and value addition
has gone up from 20 percent to 26 percent during last five years. Sahay informed
the house that the ministry has been implementing various schemes for promotion
and development of food processing industries. He also informed the housed that
a National Horticulture Mission has been launched with an objective to boost the
horticulture sector. |
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