Sahai: 350 new food processing units

The government will help in setting up 350 new food processing units in the next 100 days as part of its efforts to create one crore jobs in the sector by 2015.

Announcing this,Minister for Food Processing Industries Subodh Kant Sahai on Wednesday said the government would provide financial help to fund 25 per cent or a maximum of Rs 50 lakh of the cost in setting up each of these units. These units would be set up in the field of fruit and vegetables,meat,dairy,fish,grain and consumer food industry.

Sahai said for every Rs 1 crore invested in the sector,the government hoped to create 18 direct and 64 indirect jobs in the organised sector and another 20 in the unorganised sector.

“After the Green Revolution,we are now ushering in the ever-green revolution in the country. Processing is an ever-green activity. It’s the key to the agricultural sector,” Sahai told reporters,while launching his ministry’s 100-day programme.