Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Union Minister for food processing said during an interactive session organised by PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry in the Siidcul area of the district on Thursday that the Centre would set up more food parks in the State in the coming days. This would substantially boost food processing industry in the State, she said. Acharya Balkrishan, chief managing director of Patanjali Herbal Food Park, said that though the industrialists always abide by the framed guidelines the State Government’s dillydallying approach delays things.
Over 250 industrialists and stock holders involved in the food processing industry from across the district participated in the session organised on the theme of opportunities and challenges of food processing industry in Uttarakhand here .
Rubbishing the State Government’s allegation of the Centre meting out a step-brotherly treatment to the state, she said her department having given green signal to five Food Parks for the state negates the charge. One at Uddham Singh Nagar will start functioning by the mid of next year, she said, adding that it would come up as a joint initiative of the Centre and the State.
Dwelling over the scope of food processing in the State, Kaur said that farmers of the state have to adopt the multidimensional type of farming. The State Government must provide adequate infrastructure to the farmers, she said.