To promote food processing industry in the State and open new vistas of employment for youth, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Wednesday gave nod for setting up ‘Food Processing Training and Business Incubation Centre’ at Bathinda.
Presiding over a meeting to encourage food processing Industry in the State, the Chief Minister said the Centre to be set-up by the Punjab Agriculture University (PAU) would go a long way in transforming the farmers of the State, which was on the brink of economic disaster due to day-by-day squeezing margins of profit. He said the centre to come up on the land of Bathinda Research Centre of the PAU at a cost of about Rs7 crore would impart training to the farmers, women and youth about the innovative techniques regarding the value addition of fruits, vegetables, coarse grains and others through Food Processing, so that they could earn profits from it.