{"id":9937,"date":"2019-09-07T15:35:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T10:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=9937"},"modified":"2019-09-07T15:35:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T10:05:20","slug":"mega-food-park-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mega-food-park-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Mega Food Park scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>News<\/b>:Union Minister for Food processing has inaugurated the first Mega Food Park in Telangana.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Mega Food Park Scheme:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Mega Food Park is a scheme of the <strong>Ministry of Food Processing<\/strong>, Government of India.<\/li><li><strong>Aim<\/strong>: To provide a mechanism to bring together farmers, processors and retailers and link agricultural production to the market so as to ensure maximization of value addition, minimization of wastages and improving farmers\u2019 income.<\/li><li>These food parks give a major boost to the food processing sector by adding value and reducing food wastage at each stage of the supply chain with particular focus on perishables.<\/li><li>The financial assistance under the scheme is provided in the form of grant-in-aid at 50% of eligible project cost in general areas and at 75% of eligible project cost in North East Region and difficult areas (Hilly States and ITDP areas) subject to a maximum of Rs. 50 crore per project.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Components of the scheme<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The scheme is based on a cluster based approach based on a hub and spokes model.<\/li><li>The scheme includes creation of&nbsp; Collection Centres(CCs), Primary Processing Centers(PPCs), Central Processing Center(CPC) and Cold Chain infrastructure.<\/li><li>The PPCs are meant for functioning as a link between the producers and processors for supply of raw material to the Central Processing Centres.<\/li><li>CPC has need based core processing facilities and basic enabling infrastructure to be used by the food processing units setup at the CPC.<\/li><li>The scheme is demand-driven and would facilitate food processing units to meet environmental, safety and social standards.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/ZUYGJtgF3KZAqFqE7kwMQYidfjM6XwtwXU4WH9mbtpyCk3p6uRD1RumfOLOXR8CI0ShwuSvPfpAgiLE63YBwQtDnJUh9HPv5t4dOKHPgo1YvSnN_faDQ3YlLEj3PkTyD3IEuJSnu\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Union Minister for Food processing has inaugurated the first Mega Food Park in Telangana. Facts: About Mega Food Park Scheme: Mega Food Park is a scheme of the Ministry of Food Processing, Government of India. Aim: To provide a mechanism to bring together farmers, processors and retailers and link agricultural production to the market so&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mega-food-park-scheme\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mega Food Park scheme<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1731],"tags":[7456],"class_list":["post-9937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bill-and-acts","tag-mega-food-park-scheme","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}