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SME Times News Bureau | 11 Oct, 2017
The government is focussing on creating mini food processing units
across the country to encourage farmers to produce high-quality farm
output, Food Processing Industries Minister Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti said
in New Delhi on Tuesday.
"There is a need to set up mini food processing
units in large numbers as that would encourage farmers to produce
high-quality farm output," she said while inaugurating an Assocham FMCG
(fast moving consumer goods) Summit 2017.
The minister urged the
food processing industry to buy raw material directly from farmers,
adding that it is the only means to double their incomes, and would also
encourage them to come up with quality produce.
"If industry
directly buys the farmers' produce from them, it will get top-quality
raw material for processing purposes at a cheaper rate which will also
help the farmers in realising their actual cost.
"When the
farmers will get to know that their produce is going to be sold in such
(food processing sector) markets, they will automatically work upon
producing high quality farm output," said Jyoti.
However, the
minister lamented that post-independence, while the private food
processing industry worked extremely well on its own, there was little
support extended by the government until 2014.
"It is the responsibility of the governments to encourage the industries," she added.
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