Even as the Inter-Ministerial Approval Committee (IMAC) meeting chaired by Union Minister for Food Processing Industries Narendra Singh Tomar approved 21 projects on Tuesday, still Odisha didn’t get one of them.
These projects would be leveraging investment worth Rs 443 crore supported with a grant of Rs 189 crore under the Integrated Cold Chain and Value Addition scheme.
Eight would leveraging investment worth Rs 62 crore with grants of Rs 15 crore under the BFL scheme were approved in another meeting chaired by Tomar. Minister of State for FPI Rameswar Teli was also present. Tomar said that these projects would benefit farmers and consumers.He urged the officers to expedite the implementation of approved projects. 21 projects are likely to generate employment for nearly 12,600 people and benefit 2,00,592 farmers.
These projects would come u in 10 States Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Kerala, Nagaland, Punjab, Telangana, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.
The Scheme for Integrated Cold Chain and Value addition infrastructure aims at arresting post-harvest losses of horticulture and non-horticulture produce and providing remunerative price to farmers.