With the aim to make farmers of the state self-reliant, the Uttar Pradesh government has announced to include over 20 new agricultural products in the state's flagship One District One Product scheme.
"The processing of these products will not only help in doubling the income of farmers but will also attract investment and will promote employment opportunities at the local level," a government official said here on Sunday.
The government expects an investment of Rs 6,000 crore through this initiative which is likely to direct and indirect employment opportunities to more than two lakh people. The duration of the plan is from the financial year 2020-21 to 2024-25.
"After discussion with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the Union Ministry of Food Processing, under the Atmanirbhar Bharat campaign, has identified about two dozen agricultural products that are in demand in the market and can be added to the ODOP scheme," the official said.
He said the government would help in providing financial and technical help, markets, capacity expansion, quality improvement, branding, project report preparation to the units associated with the processing of these products in the respective districts.
"A single unit will get a capital subsidy of about 35 per cent or a maximum of Rs 10 lakh of the project cost. With this, the share of the unit holder will be only 10 per cent. Also, the land cost will not be added to the cost of the project," the official said.
The products brought under the scheme include milk products of Aligarh, Bareilly, Bulandshahr, Kanpur Dehat, Jaunpur, Mathura, Auraiya and Kasganj, green chilli of Varanasi and Deoria, mangoes of Amroha, Lucknow, Sitapur and Unnao, fenugreek of Barabanki, Rampur, Sambhal and Sultanpur, Kalanamak rice of Basti, Siddharthnagar, Maharajganj, Sant Kabir Nagar and Gorakhpur, tomatoes of Chandauli, Mirzapur and Sonbhadra, bakery products of Gautam Buddha Nagar, Ghaziabad, Kanpur Nagar, Moradabad and Saharanpur.
Apart from these, the other products included under the ODOP scheme are asafetida of Hathras, fish from Hamirpur and Tulsi from Azamgarh.
