Chief Minister Raghubar Das on Thursday visited the food processing unit of the Sanquan Company located in Zhengzhou City with the delegation, where he stressed on policies and possibilities in the sector back home in front of the Chinese representatives.
Chen Zemin, chairman of the company informed about different facilities of his plant, food processing, packaging and quality testing in sync with National Standard Quality parameters and packaging meeting the export standards including of vegetables. The company has seven plants all over China and about 10,000 people work over there. Turnover of this company is about 10 billion Yuan or roughly Rs 10,000 crore.
The Chief Minister informed the Chairman of the Company about the possibility of production of vegetables and food processing in Jharkhand and also about the Food Processing Policy and the facilities provided by the State Government for the industries.
Apart from this he invited the Chairman to Jharkhand to understand and explore these possibilities during the Global Agriculture and Food Summit to be held on November 29-30. During the summit interaction of local companies of Jharkhand can take place with global players including investment and transfer of technology. “In Jharkhand this area can get maximum investment. In the coming days, Jharkhand will become India's largest food processing hub,” said the CM.
Chen Zemin on his part assured that he will study the Indian market and the possibilities of food processing in Jharkhand and will definitely take further action. He also looked curious about mass level vegetable production in Jharkhand which can be processed.
The talks took place in a positive environment and there is a possibility that the Food Processing Industry can be promoted in Jharkhand. Local companies of Jharkhand can get better technology benefits. The Chief Minister has been emphasizing that the companies in China who export more and who are processing food products, how their investments can be increased in Jharkhand.
The CM along with three of his Cabinet colleagues namely Neelkanth Singh Munda, CP Singh and Amar Kumar Bauri and senior officials Development Commissioner DK Tiwari and his Principal Secretary Sunil Kumar Barnwal is on five day tour of China starting September 1.