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With Srini’s inauguration, India’s first mega food park goes on stream
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Wednesday, 11 July, 2012, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Our Bureau, New Delhi
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fiogf49gjkf0d Agriculture and food processing industries minister Sharad Pawar inaugurated the Srini Mega Food Park at Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh on Monday.
According to a press release by the ministry of food processing industries (MoFPI), it is the first mega food park in the country. From seed to shelf, the park facilitates end-to-end food processing with beneficial forward and backward linkages. On par with software parks, this new-age facility is equipped with Central Processing Centre and Primary Processing Centres. It aims at becoming a pioneering infrastructure enabler and facilitator for the food processing industry.
As a model mega food park and the first-of-its-kind in India, Srini provides state-of-the-art food processing infrastructure designed as per global standards and develops a veritable market place with common facilities on the lines of a software park or a textile park.
Nestled in a sprawling 147-acre space, the food park provides world-class facilities for pulping, IQF, bottling, Tetra Paking, modular cold storage, warehousing and advanced testing lab. It enables basic and supply chain infrastructure, cluster farming and is ably backed by field collection centres, self-help groups and individual farmers. The food park will empower the food industry with state-of-the-art infrastructure and quality raw material sourcing.
With the highest growth in the fruits and vegetables sector (20%) and with Chittoor being the largest fruits and vegetables cluster in India, this park becomes an ideal destination for food processing units, the release added.
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