First Mega Food Park in Maharashtra to be inaugurated on Mar 1

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New Delhi : The first Mega Food Park in the state of Maharashtra, M/s Satara Mega Food Park Pvt. Ltd, at village Degaon, District Satara, will be inaugurated on March 1, 2018, by  Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Union Minister of Food Processing Industries  (FPI), in the presence of Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis.

This is the 10^th Mega Food Park being operationalized in the country and the 8th  operationalized during the tenure of present government. Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, MoS, FPI,  Sharad Pawar, Member of Parliament, Sudhir Mungantiwar, Minister of Finance, Planning & Forest, Government of Maharashtra, Udayanraje Pratap Singh Bhonsle, Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha, Satara, will also grace the occasion.

To give a major boost to the food processing sector by adding value and reducing food wastage at each stage of the supply chain with particular focus on perishables, Ministry of Food Processing Industries is implementing Mega Food Park Scheme in the country. Mega Food Parks create modern infrastructure facilities for food processing along the value chain from farm to market with strong forward and backward linkages through a cluster based approach, according to aPIB release.

Common facilities and enabling infrastructure is created at Central Processing Centre and facilities for primary processing and storage is created near the farm in the form of Primary Processing Centers (PPCs) and Collection Centers (CCs). Under the Scheme, the Government of India provides financial assistance up to Rs 50 crore per Mega Food Park project. Satara Mega Food Park has been set up in 64 acre of land at a cost of Rs 139.30 crore.