Promoting Food Processing

Draft National Policy on Food Processing 2019:

It aims to increase investment in the sector by six-fold by 2035.

1. Promotion of cluster approach: strengthening and creation of integrated supply chain infrastructure to minimize wastages;
2. Incentivize expansion and up-gradation of technology for processing and preservation, particularly for perishables;
3. Increased institutional credit at an affordable cost for investment and working capita;
4. Promoting employment by incentivizing FPOs to engage in FPI and empowering farmers graduating to Agri-entrepreneurs;
5. Supporting unorganized sector to improve their competitiveness and upward movement to organized segment;
6. Support for R&D activities in products & processes,

• Facilitate dissemination of latest innovation & technology & promote best practices available,
• Strengthening India’s unique selling proposition (USP) in traditional food;

7. Sector-specific Entrepreneurship Development training: dissemination of knowledge and skill training;
8. Creating awareness of food quality & safety:

• Training manpower to ensure regulatory compliance,
• Promoting voluntary compliance to regulatory standards through a regime of self-certification and self-regulation;
• To promote good hygiene practices (GHP), and good manufacturing Practices (GMP)

9. Undertaking institutional reforms to ensure a smooth supply of agro-raw material to the processing industry;
10. Accelerate investment in the food processing sector through collaboration between GOI, State Governments and other stakeholders;
11. Encourage a separate single window clearance desk at the Department of Food Processing at the state level with the Ministry of Food Processing in GoI as the nodal agency for extending support, guidance and filling critical gaps.
    • Back-end solutions: Market support is important; Farmer needs to reach to the market.
      • Cooperatives in Milk are only 20% but affect the market.
      • APMCs are also cooperative driven but Farmer politics… GIVE Freedom to farmers to sell out of mandis. Out of the clutches of large farmers.
    • Diversify farmers to non-food crops.

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