The Kerala government is readying to set up a Rs 50-crore food park in Wayanad and Rs 15-crore modernised abattoir in PPP in Malappuram. The Union food processing ministry has offered assistance for these projects, besides 100% funding for a state-of-the-art food quality lab in State government sector.
The Centre has also offered 100% funds backing for cold storage facility at a unit investment of Rs 10 crore each. Three such units are likely to be set up in Kerala.
After an interactive workshop with Union minister for food rocessing Subodh Kant Sahay, chief executives and scientists of premier agro institutes and business captains in the State, Kerala industry minister Elamaram Karim said that the State had already identified and acquired land for food park and abattoir. "We are also getting Corporations and other local bodies in forming abattoir PPPs to draw funds from the Central food processing kitty," he said.
Harnessing 7% of the State's post-harvesting to food processing industry, Kerala's crop to industry flow is higher than national average. Three food parks, occupied to optimum levels, are operative in the State. Another one is under construction.
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