SME Times News Bureau | 26 May, 2018
Union
Minister of Food Processing Industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal Friday
said that the Ministry will collaborate with multiple international
laboratories testing various food products so that the food products
approved by laboratories at National Institute of Food
Entrepreneurship and Management(NIFTEM) get worldwide acceptability.
Speaking
to the media at the inauguration ceremony of an Incubation centre and
Food Testing Laboratory at NIFTEM in Sonipat, Haryana, Badal said
that NIFTEM should develop its own brand under which it could market
the products developed at the institute.
She
said that the products would be cheaper, fresher and healthier that
other products. She also said that the institute would become a
centre for excellence.
Speaking
on the importance of the institute the Minister expressed hope that
farmer from nearby areas are able to learn processing and packaging
at the institute. She also said that students from NIFTEM do not just
learn theory but because of the industry partnerships, learn what the
industry wants.
At
the ceremony, Secretary of Ministry of Food Processing Industries, Sh
Jagdish Prasad Meena said that the incubation centre will incubate
entrepreneurs of tomorrow and will benefit the local farming
community directly.
Senior
officials of the Ministry and NIFTEM were also present during the
inauguration ceremony.