The land of white revolution, Anand district in Gujarat, is likely to get a mega food park over the next few months, Union minister of state for food processing industries Subodh Kant Sahay said here on Tuesday.
Sahay also announced that Central Gujarat comprising districts of Anand, Kheda, Nadiad, Valsad and Navsari would be declared as a food processing corridor to focus investments in the region.
The minister was speaking at a function organised by the Entrepreneurship Development Institute (EDI), CII and the ministry of food processing industries to highlight the investment opportunities in the food processing sector.
The Centre has released Rs50 crore for development of such mega food parks. The Union ministry of food processing industries is promoting such parks to boost country's growing food processing sector.
The scheme is expected to facilitate achievements of Vision 2015 of the ministry to raise processing of perishables in the country from the existing 6% to 20%, value addition from 20% to 35% and the share in global food trade from 1.5% to 3% by 2015.
Bharatsinh Solanki, union minister of state for power, who was also present on the occasion, said that India will be viewed as global food factory in the next 10 years.
