A total of 17 projects for food processing have been approved by the Ministry of Food Processing Industries under various sub-schemes of Pradhan Mantri Kisan Smpada Yojana (PMKSY) in 2021-22 having processing capacity of 3.6428 Lakh MT/annum and preservation capacity of 2.2149 Lakh MT/annum.
The details of 17 projects are as under:
|
SN
|
Scheme
|
Number
of Approved Projects
|
|
1
|
Agro
Processing Clusters (APC)
|
7 7
|
|
2
|
Creation/Expansion
of Food Processing/Preservation Capacity (CEFPPC)
|
3 3
|
|
3
|
Integrated
Cold Chain & Value Addition Infrastructure (ICC)
|
5 5
|
|
4
|
Mega
Food Parks (MFP)
|
2 2
|
|
|
Total
|
17 17
|
The 17 projects sanctioned in 2021-22 have employment capacity of 11,137.
This information was given by Minister of State for Food Processing Industries Prahlad Singh Patel in a written reply in Lok Sabha recently