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“MoFPI planning to set up cold chain in Kerala”: Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti
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Thursday, 22 January, 2015, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Our Bureau, New Delhi
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fiogf49gjkf0d The ministry of food processing industries (MoFPI) is planning to set up integrated cold chain and preservation infrastructure in Kerala and other parts of the country. This was stated by minister of state (MoS) for food processing Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti at a presentation on the food processing industry in Kerala, which took place at Mascot Hotel in Thiruvananthapuram and was organised by the Kerala Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (KINFRA).
Jyoti said, “Value addition is being done to provide integrated cold chain and preservation infrastructure facilities without any break from the farm gate to the consumer. It covers pre-cooling facilities at production sites, reefer vans, mobile cooling units and value addition centres, which include infrastructure facilities like processing, multi-line processing and collection centres for horticulture, organic produce, fish and marine, dairy, meat and poultry.”
She added, “The Centre has plans to have the mobile cooling units and cold storage facilities in fishing vessels and super-fast trains. It would also design scheme for providing subsidy through bank to the farmers.” The minister promised all support and assistance for the mega food park project planned by KINFRA at Palakkad.
Dr D C Gopala Pillai, managing director, KINFRA; Harikumar, chief executive officer, State Food Mission; J Krishnakumar, managing director, KINFRA Film and Video Park; Rajagopal, joint secretary, industries department, government of Kerala; K Sudhakaran, general manager, projects, KINFRA; K N Srikumar, senior media advisor, KINFRA; G Sunil, manager, technical, KINFRA; Manu George, strategist, KINFRA, and Sunilkumar P S, manager, administration, KINFRA, were present at the event.
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