With what purpose is the Government of India promoting the concept of “Mega Food Parks”?
- 1.To provide good infrastructure facilities for the food processing industry.
- 2.To increase the processing of perishable items and reduce wastage.
- 3.To provide emerging and eco-friendly food processing technologies to entrepreneurs.
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Answer & explanation
Answer: (b) 1 and 2 only
The Mega Food Park Scheme of the Ministry of Food Processing Industries exists to build modern infrastructure for food processing along the chain from farm to market, with reduced wastage as an expected outcome. Supplying emerging or eco-friendly technologies to entrepreneurs is not one of its objectives. The Ministry handles technology upgradation through a separate scheme. So statements 1 and 2 are correct.
- ✓ 1. The scheme's primary objective is to provide modern infrastructure facilities for food processing along the value chain from the farm to the market.
- ✓ 2. Reduction in wastage is a stated expected outcome of the scheme. It also lists creation of high-quality processing infrastructure and an efficient supply chain, which lets perishable produce be processed instead of lost.
- ✗ 3. The scheme's objectives concern infrastructure and the farm-to-market supply chain. Providing emerging or eco-friendly technologies to entrepreneurs is not among them. Technology upgradation and modernisation of food processing industries falls under a separate scheme of the Ministry.
Remember · Mega Food Parks provide modern farm-to-market processing infrastructure and reduce wastage. They are not a technology-supply scheme.
Sources
- Ministry of Food Processing Industries – Revised Guidelines of Mega Food Park Scheme (w.e.f. 21.07.2016) ↗ “The primary objective of the MFPS is to provide modern infrastructure facilities for the food processing along the value chain from the farm to the market. … The expected outcome is increased realization for farmers, creation of high quality processing infrastructure, reduction in wastage, capacity building of producers, processors and creation of an efficient supply chain”
- Ministry of Food Processing Industries – Annual Report (contents: technology upgradation is a separate scheme) ↗ “CHAPTER-8 Scheme For Technology Up-Gradation/ Establishment/ Modernization Of Food Processing Industries 81”
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