Lok Sabha Question No. 4264 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-03-28
Subject: Training for Food Processing Industries
Ministry: FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES
Asked by: LALLU SINGH

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO: 4264 ANSWERED ON 28 TH  MARCH, 2017

## TRAINING FOR FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES

## 4264. SHRI LALLU SINGH:

Will the MINISTER OF FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES be pleased to state:

- (a) Whether the Government has made a provision for imparting training and setting up food processing industries through certain Institutes in the country;
- (b) if so, the details thereof and the total number of individuals given training on average annual basis by these institutes;
- (c) Whether such entrepreneurs have set up any industries and started operating the same; and
- (d)      if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES (SADHVI NIRANJAN JYOTI)

- (a) & (b): Yes Madam. Ministryof Food processing Industries has made provisions for imparting  training  through  two  institutions  under  its  administrative  control  -  National institute of National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship & Management(NIFTEM) and Indian Institute of Crop Processing Technology(IICPT). Besides academic programs of Bachelor's, Master's and Ph.D. level in food processing sector, these Institutes  also  conduct  regular  courses  on  skill  development  and  entrepreneurship    for    the youth,  farmers,  self-help  groups  and  industry.The  details  in  this regard  is placed  at Annexure-I
- (c)  &  (d):Yes  Madam.  Many  entrepreneurs  have  set  up  Food  processing  Industries  after attaining training/technical guideline services. The details are placed at Annexure-II

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## ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (a)  &  (b)  OF  LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED  QUESTION  NO.  4264  FOR  28 th   MARCH,  2017  REGARDING INTEGRATED COLD CHAIN PROJECTS

## Training Details for Indian Institute of Crop Processing Technology:

Indian Institute of Crop Processing Technology (IICPT), Thanjavur, under the Ministry of Food Processing Industries is offering regular skill development trainings through its Food Processing Business Incubation Centre (FPBIC) to the public (farmers, unemployed youth, self help group members, budding entrepreneurs etc.). Also IICPT's North Eastern regional center at Guwahati and liaison office at Bathinda are offering such services. IICPT's FPBIC is offering the following skill development programs:

-  Beginner's Training - One day training
-  Skill Advancement Training - Three days Training
-  Executive Training - Five Days Training
-  Inplant Training on Food Processing - 1 to 3 months
-  Technical Guidelines/ Consultancy Programmes - 6 months

The summary of trainings given and its beneficiaries are given below :

Table 1. Total number of trainings and beneficiaries for the current year (2016- 2017)

|   Sl. No. | Program                                 |   No. of programs |   No. of beneficiaries |
|-----------|-----------------------------------------|-------------------|------------------------|
|         1 | Beginners training for entrepreneurs    |                74 |                    484 |
|         2 | Beginners training for SHGs and farmers |                 6 |                    147 |
|         3 | Beginners training for officials        |                 1 |                     33 |
|         4 | Executive training for new entrepreneur |                21 |                     56 |
|         5 | Skill advancement in-plant training     |                 4 |                     16 |
|         6 | Technical guidelines cum trainings      |                41 |                    123 |
|         7 | Training cum incubation service         |                82 |                    164 |
|         8 | Mobile processing unit training         |                10 |                  19100 |

Table 2. Total Number of Trainees Trained and Certified from 2010-2016

| Title of Skill Development Plan      | Type of Beneficiary              |   2010 |   2011 |   2012 |   2013 |   2014 |   2015 |   2016 |
|--------------------------------------|----------------------------------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
| Beginners training                   | Farmers, SHGs and stakeholders   |    249 |    815 |   1980 |   1032 |    905 |    801 |    557 |
| Executive Training &Inplant Training | Students& entrepreneurs          |     43 |      6 |    222 |      7 |     43 |     87 |     55 |
| Consultancy / Technical              | Umemployedyout h , farmers , SHG |     57 |     78 |     93 |    133 |    174 |    198 |    123 |

| Guidelines                         | members                            |                    |                    |                    |                    |                    |                    |                    |
|------------------------------------|------------------------------------|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|
| Govt. Funded Count                 | Govt. Funded Count                 | Govt. Funded Count | Govt. Funded Count | Govt. Funded Count | Govt. Funded Count | Govt. Funded Count | Govt. Funded Count | Govt. Funded Count |
| DWDA, TamilNadu                    | Farmers training                   | 0                  | 0                  | 0                  | 419                | 241                | 0                  | 0 0                |
| PuthuvazhvuThitta m                | SHGs, differently disabled persons | 0                  | 0                  | 0                  | 200                | 54                 | 0                  | 0                  |
| Indo-Africa Forum Submit programme | Farmers and officials              | 0                  | 0                  | 26                 | 25                 | 0                  | 0                  | 0                  |
| NMFP, Tamil Nadu                   | Agricultural officers              | 0                  | 0                  | 0                  | 613                | 0                  | 0                  | 0                  |
| NMFP, Maharashtra                  | AB&AM training officers            | 0                  | 0                  | 0                  | 40                 | 0                  | 0                  | 0                  |
| IAMWARM training                   | Farmers                            | 0                  | 0                  | 0                  | 0                  | 2096               | 0                  | 0                  |
| IWMP, Punjab state                 | Agricultural officers              | 0                  | 0                  | 0                  | 0                  | 18                 | 0                  | 0                  |
| Vocation Training, PMKV            | Bakery Technician                  | 0                  | 0                  | 0                  | 0                  | 0                  | 69                 | 0                  |
| ESDP on food processing, EDI       | Entrepreneurs                      | 0                  | 0                  | 0                  | 0                  | 0                  | 41                 | 0                  |
| Total                              | Total                              | 292                | 821                | 2228               | 2336               | 3357               | 998                | 612                |

Table 3. Total Number of Skill Development Plan Conducted from 2010-2016

| Title of Skill Development Plan       |   2010 |   2011 |   2012 |   2013 |   2014 |   2015 |   2016 |
|---------------------------------------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
| Beginners training                    |     40 |     63 |    103 |    121 |    100 |    113 |     80 |
| Executive Training &In plant Training |      9 |      4 |      8 |      4 |     11 |     28 |     11 |
| Consultancy / Technical Guidelines    |     19 |     26 |     37 |     48 |     58 |     66 |     41 |
| DWDA, Tamil Nadu                      |      0 |      0 |      0 |     21 |      6 |      0 |      0 |
| PuthuvazhvuThittam                    |      0 |      0 |      0 |      8 |      3 |      0 |      0 |
| Indo-Africa Forum Submit programme    |      0 |      0 |      1 |      1 |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| NMFP, Tamil Nadu                      |      0 |      0 |      0 |     16 |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| NMFP, Maharashtra                     |      0 |      0 |      0 |      2 |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| IAMWARM training                      |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |     50 |      0 |      0 |
| IWMP, Punjab state                    |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |      1 |      0 |      0 |
| Vocation Training, PMKV               |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |      4 |      0 |
| ESDP on food processing, EDI          |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |      1 |      0 |
| Total                                 |     49 |     67 |    112 |    173 |    171 |    146 |     91 |

## Training  Details  for  National  Institute  of  Food  Technology  Entrepreneurship  & Management (NIFTEM) :

The  institute  has  an  intake  of  180  students  for  B.  Tech  program  in  food  technology  and management, 90 students for M. Tech program and about 20 students for Doctorate program annually.  Besides the institute has been imparting short term trainings of one day, one week and  two  week  as  part  of  skill  development  and  outreach  activities.  The  summary  of  these trainings is given below.

1.  Total Persons trained in one day outreach programs from 2011 till date 9651
2.   Total  Persons trained in one & two week skill development programs from 2011 to till date 3505

## ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (c)  &  (d)  OF  LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED  QUESTION  NO.  4264  FOR  28 th   MARCH,  2017  REGARDING INTEGRATED COLD CHAIN PROJECTS

## List of Entrepreneurs who have set up their industries after attaining training/technical guideline services of IICPT

|   S.No | Beneficiary/Industry Name                   | Title of the Production Technology                                            |
|--------|---------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|      1 | South Indian Grains Corporation, Paramakudi | All Millets Rice (Parboiled rice, Kaikuthal rice)                             |
|      2 | Isha foods &Spices Ltd, Coimbatore          | Ready mix health porridge                                                     |
|      3 | JVS Foods Private Limited, Jaipur           | RTE &RTC extruded products                                                    |
|      4 | Flora-O-Foods, Jaipur                       | Health mix for adolescent, cookie for school going children, puffed millets   |
|      5 | Adhisurya Foods, Pollachi                   | Fruit and vegetable incorporated health mix                                   |
|      6 | Sooryasuman, Palakkad                       | Nannari syrup preparation                                                     |
|      7 | Ashwins Sweets &Bakery Perambalur           | Rice bran, maize based cookies and muffins                                    |
|      8 | Ebenezer Food Products Oddanchatram         | Whole wheat atta with added vegetables                                        |
|      9 | Nutrients Health Care Pvt. Ltd Chennai      | Multigrain rusk, Ragi cookies with rice bran, Sugar free rusk, RTU-crispy mix |
|     10 | Ramana's Food Products, Mayilai             | Shelf life of athirasam batter                                                |
|     11 | Hera Chapathi, Chennai                      | RTC chappathi                                                                 |
|     12 | Anni Foods, Bangalore                       | Kurkure/masala                                                                |
|     13 | Litho Foods NB. Kailasam, Trivellore        | Fruit beverages                                                               |
|     14 | Green Mark, Namakkal                        | Minor millets value addition                                                  |
|     15 | A.G. Food Products Thanjavur                | Carbonated drinks                                                             |
|     16 | Apple Foods, Trichy                         | Millets- cookies preperation                                                  |
|     17 | S. Senthilumar, Namakkal                    | Value addition of drumstick / Drumstick powder                                |
|     18 | Amla , Namakkal                             | Value addition of amla                                                        |
|     19 | Jothi Agro Products Pvt Ltd. Virdhunagar    | Value addition of tomato                                                      |
|     20 | S.Senthilkumar, Tirupur                     | Lime value addition                                                           |
|     21 | Shree Sakthi Food products, Vellore         | RTE curries                                                                   |
|     22 | J. John Britto, Trichy                      | Amla candy                                                                    |
|     23 | RajeswariRavikumar, Thiruvaiyaru            | Health mix                                                                    |
|     24 | Vaibhav P Ghanekar, Nasik                   | Sugarcane Bottling                                                            |
|     25 | Mary SelvaBabitha, Tuticorin                | Masala Powder                                                                 |
|     26 | Yes India Impex, Bangalore                  | Tomato Powder                                                                 |
|     27 | R. Deenadhayalan, Trichy                    | Osmo dehydrated Banana                                                        |
|     28 | S. Thanikachalam, Cuddalore                 | Banana fig                                                                    |
|     29 | Rinka Banerjee, Bangalore                   | Quick cooking porridge                                                        |
|     30 | R. Karthikeyan, Palani                      | Fruit pulp processing                                                         |

|   31. | R. Ambikapathi, Thanjavur                             | Asafoetida processing                                                  |
|-------|-------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|    32 | Ms. Sivakami.R Madurai                                | Package Techniques for South Indian Snacks (Murrkku, Thattai, Cheedai) |
|    33 | Saravanakumar, Palakad                                | Masala Powder                                                          |
|    34 | Britto Sea Foods, Tuticorin                           | Sweet corn canning                                                     |
|    35 | HemaSenthil, Namakkal                                 | GMP and shelf life extension of dry foods                              |
|    36 | Amigo Impex, Trichy                                   | Pickles                                                                |
|    37 | H. Mansur, Orathanad                                  | Commercial production of fruit beverage                                |
|    38 | K. Kumar, Madurai                                     | Layer cake                                                             |
|    39 | Classic Bits Food Industry, Dubai                     | Thin pastry sheet                                                      |
|    40 | L. Kalaimani, Thanjavur                               | Healthy rusk, cookies and pastries                                     |
|    41 | Fanaza Ltd., Africa                                   | Energy bar                                                             |
|    42 | Shreyas Entrepreneurs Development Madurai             | Value addition of sapota                                               |
|    43 | Sri Kumar Bakery, Kadalur                             | Millets in bakery products                                             |
|    44 | Annugarav Food Supplies Pvt. Ltd. Madurai.            | Millets in bakery products                                             |
|    45 | Eastern Condiments Pvt Ltd Trichy                     | Pickling preservation techniques                                       |
|    46 | Varun Food Products, Chennai                          | Pickling preservation techniques                                       |
|    47 | Thirumuruthur Agro Crop India Ltd., Madurai           | Sugar based fruit products                                             |
|    48 | Annugarav Food Supplies Pvt. Ltd., Madurai            | Sugar based fruit products                                             |
|    49 | Maxwin Food Products, Erode                           | Candies and preserve                                                   |
|    50 | Sai Shakti Nutrition Supplements, Vellore.            | Value addition of fermented food products                              |
|    51 | JJ Agricultural Marketing Services Pvt., Ltd. Madurai | Processing of fruit beverages                                          |
|    52 | Vaagai Enterprises, Madurai                           | Science and technology of chocolate manufacture                        |
|    53 | Aro Dates, 52 B, TVK Street, Trichy                   | Science and technology of chocolate manufacture                        |
|    54 | VaibhavNuti Foods, Thanjavur                          | Drying technology of fruits and vegetables                             |
|    55 | Thilaga Bakery, Sethiathope                           | Fancy cakes and icecream                                               |
|    56 | Surya Bakery, Sethiathope                             | Fancy cakes and ice cream                                              |
|    57 | Sekar Industries, Dharmapuri                          | Homemade chocolates                                                    |
|    58 | Hudson Kavery Holdings Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore           | Processing of masala powders                                           |
|    59 | Senthil Cottage Industries, Madurai                   | Pickling preservation techniques                                       |
|    60 | Farm Fresh International, Kancheepuram                | Processing of fruit beverages                                          |
|    61 | Bright Sweets and Bakery, Thanjavur                   | Processing of fruit beverages                                          |
|    62 | Lucky Food Products, Thiruvarur                       | Healthy rusk and varieties of cookies                                  |
|    63 | Litho food Industries, Chennai                        | Healthy rusk and varieties of cookies                                  |
|    64 | Bismi food products, Villupuram                       | Value addition of mushrooms                                            |
|    65 | Subbaiah foods, Thoothukudi                           | Value addition of millets                                              |
|    66 | Chrisyfriedgram Industry, Thiruchengode               | Processing of millet based extruded and baked products                 |