Lok Sabha Question No. 453 (STARRED), answered on 2018-03-27
Subject: Promotion of Food Products
Ministry: FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES
Asked by: RAVINDRA VISHWANATH GAIKWAD

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. *453

ANSWERED ON 27 TH  MARCH, 2018

PROMOTION OF FOOD PRODUCTS

## †*453. PROF. RAVINDRA VISHWANATH GAIKWAD:

Will the Minister of FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has prepared any policy for promotion of food products/processing of food products in the country and if so, the details thereof;
- (b) whether  there  is  absence  of  a  holistic  system  to  ensure  transport  of  agricultural produce directly from the farm to the food processing industry/unit and the processed products  to  the  market  and  if  so,  the  details  thereof  along  with  the  scheme  being formulated by the Government to address the said problem;
- (c) the  total  number  of  cold  chains  sanctioned  in  the  country  at  present  along  with  the details of cold chains out of them which have been made operational, State/ UT-wise; and
- (d) the time by which the remaining cold chains are likely to be made operational?

## ANSWER

THE MINISTER OF FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES (HARSIMRAT KAUR BADAL)

(a) to (d): A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.

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## STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) to (d) OF LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. †*453 FOR ANSWERED ON 27.03.2018 REGARDING PROMOTION OF FOOD PRODUCTS

(a) & (b): For promotion of the food processing sector, the Government is implementing a Central Sector Scheme PRADHAN MANTRI KISAN SAMPADA YOJANA (PMKSY) with an allocation of Rs.6,000 crore for the period 2016-20 coterminous with the 14 th Finance Commission cycle. PMKSY  is a comprehensive package for creation of modern infrastructure  with  efficient  supply  chain  management  from  farm  gate  to  retail  outlet.  The following schemes are implemented under PMKSY:

- (i) Mega Food Parks (on going);
- (ii) Integrated Cold Chain and Value Addition Infrastructure (on going);
- (iii) Creation/Expansion of Food Processing & Preservation Capacities (new);
- (iv) Infrastructure for Agro-processing Clusters (new);
- (v) Creation of Backward and Forward Linkages (new);
- (vi) Food Safety and Quality Assurance Infrastructure (on going); and
- (vii) Human Resources and Institutions (on going).

Under these schemes, financial assistance  as  grant-in-aid  is  provided  to  the  Project Execution  Agency  (PEA)/organisations  such  as  Government/Public  Sector  Undertakings (PSUs)/Joint  Ventures/Non-Governmental  Organisations  (NGOs)/  Cooperatives/Self  Help Groups (SHGs)/Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs)/ Farmer Producer Companies (FPCs)/Private  Sector/Partnership  firm/individuals,  etc.,  for  setting  up  projects  to  create infrastructure/processing  capacity,  create  backward  and  forward  linkages,  etc.,  to  link production centres to the consumption centres. Grant is also provided for purchase of vehicles for transporting agriculture produce from the farm to the food processing industries/units and to the market as part of the project.

(c) & (d): Under the Scheme for Integrated Cold Chain and Value Addition Infrastructure, 238 number of Cold Chain Projects have been sanctioned in the country as on 19.3.2018. Out of these, 117 Cold Chain projects are operational and remaining 121 Cold Chain projects are at various stages of implementation.  As per the pre-revised guidelines of the Scheme for Integrated Cold Chain and Value Addition Infrastructure, the implementation schedule for the project  is  24  months  for  General  Areas  and  30  months  for  difficult  areas  from  the  date  of approval of each project.  As per the revised guidelines of the scheme dated 29.08.2016 & 08.03.2018, the implementation schedule for the project is 20 months in General Areas and 24 months in North-East States, Himalayan States, ITDP Areas and Islands for the projects sanctioned after this date.  State/UT-wise details of Cold Chains projects sanctioned by the Ministry in the country with the status of implementation under the Scheme for Integrated Cold Chain and Value Addition Infrastructure is given at Annexure .

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## ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (c) OF LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. †*453 FOR ANSWERED ON 27.03.2018 REGARDING PROMOTION OF FOOD PRODUCTS

State/UT-wise details of Cold Chains projects sanctioned by the Ministry in the country with completed and under implementation projects under the Scheme for Integrated Cold Chain and Value Addition Infrastructure.

| Sl. No.   | State             |   Completed/ Operational |   Under Implementation |   Total |
|-----------|-------------------|--------------------------|------------------------|---------|
| 1         | Andhra Pradesh    |                        2 |                      6 |       8 |
| 2         | Andaman& Nicobar  |                        0 |                      1 |       1 |
| 3         | Arunachal Pradesh |                        0 |                      1 |       1 |
| 4         | Assam             |                        1 |                      1 |       2 |
| 5         | Bihar             |                        1 |                      2 |       3 |
| 6         | Chhattisgarh      |                        2 |                      0 |       2 |
| 7         | Gujarat           |                        8 |                     11 |      19 |
| 8         | Haryana           |                        6 |                      3 |       9 |
| 9         | Himachal Pradesh  |                        8 |                      4 |      12 |
| 10        | Jammu &Kashmir    |                        3 |                      3 |       6 |
| 11        | Karnataka         |                        4 |                      5 |       9 |
| 12        | Kerala            |                        1 |                      3 |       4 |
| 13        | Madhya Pradesh    |                        3 |                      5 |       8 |
| 14        | Maharashtra       |                       28 |                     26 |      54 |
| 15        | Manipur           |                        1 |                      1 |       2 |
| 16        | Mizoram           |                        2 |                      0 |       2 |
| 17        | Nagaland          |                        0 |                      2 |       2 |
| 18        | Odisha            |                        2 |                      0 |       2 |
| 19        | Punjab            |                        8 |                      8 |      16 |
| 20        | Rajasthan         |                        4 |                      6 |      10 |
| 21        | Tamil Nadu        |                        3 |                      5 |       8 |
| 22        | Telangana         |                        2 |                      5 |       7 |
| 23        | Uttar Pradesh     |                        8 |                     15 |      23 |
| 24        | Uttarakhand       |                       14 |                      6 |      20 |
| 25        | West Bengal       |                        6 |                      2 |       8 |
|           | Total             |                      117 |                    121 |     238 |