Prahlad Singh Patel Highlighted Assistance Provided to Food Processing Industries at Lok Sabha

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30 Nov 2021 07:52 IST

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Prahlad Singh Patel, Food Processing Sector

In order to ensure overall development of Food Processing Industries in the country including to deal with challenges arising out of COVID-19, Ministry Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) has undertaken a number of initiatives as part of the Aatmanirbhar Bharat Initiative, which includes -

Centrally Sponsored -PM Formalisation of Micro Food Processing Enterprises Scheme (PMFME) for providing financial, technical and business support for setting up/upgradation of 2 lakh micro food processing enterprises across the country during five years from 2020-21 to 2024-25 based on One District One Product (ODOP) approach with an outlay of Rs.10,000 crore.
The expansion in scope of “Operation Greens scheme” under Pradhan Mantri Kisan SAMPADA Yojana from Tomato, Onion & Potato (TOP) from Tomato, Onion and Potato (TOP) to all notified fruits & vegetables (TOTAL).
Production Linked Incentive scheme (PLIS) for Food Processing Sector with an outlay of Rs 10,900 Crore to support creation of global food manufacturing champions and support Indian brands of food products in international market.

This information was given by Minister of State for M/o Food Processing Industries, Shri Prahlad Singh Patel in a written reply in Lok Sabha.

Union Home Secretary, vide Order No 40-3 / 2020- DM –I (A) dated15^thApril, 2020 dated, addressed to all Chief Secretaries/Administrators of States/ Union Territories, exempted Food Processing Industries in rural areas, apart from various agriculture and related activities from lockdown restrictions, subject to adherence of prescribed COVID norms. In order to facilitate food processing units resume their operations, MoFPI had established a dedicated Grievance Cell and a Task Force during initial phase of outbreak of COVID-19 Pandemic itself to liaison with state authorities. A total of 585 industry related issues were resolved during the COVID lockdown period in 2020 by the Cell.

PM Formalisation of Micro Food Processing Enterprises (PMFME) Scheme

The details of State-wise number of beneficiaries who have submitted applications under the PM Formalisation of Micro Food Processing Enterprises (PMFME) scheme since its launch are at Annexure-I.

Data on the percentage of beneficiaries in rural and urban areas is not maintained separately under the Scheme.

876 micro-food processing individuals have been trained in 13 States/UTs through 34 Food Processing and Entrepreneurship training sessions under capacity building component of the Scheme till date.

The Ministry has approved 137 unique products as One District One Product (ODOP) for 710 districts of 35 States/ UTs. The State-wise list of ODOP is at Annexure-II.

Annexure-I

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART(a) OF LOK SABHAUNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 449 FOR ANSWER ON 30^THNOVEMBER, 2021 REGARDING PMFME

STATE WISE LIST OF APPLICATIONS RECEIVED FROM INDIVIDUALBENEFICIARIES, SHGs, FPOs AND COOPERATIVES AS ON DATE

	Sl. No		State/UT			Application received
						Individual Beneficiaries	SHG	FPO	Cooperatives
	1		Andaman And Nicobar Islands			10	0	0	0
	2		Andhra Pradesh			1197	0	5	0
	3		Arunachal Pradesh			38	3	1	0
	4		Assam			79	1	0	0
	5		Bihar			148	2	0	0
	6		Chandigarh			8	0	0	0
	7		Chhattisgarh			67	0	2	0
	8		Dadra And Nagar Haveli And Daman And Diu			2	0	0	0
	9		Delhi			111	4	0	0
	10		Goa			6	0	0	0
	11		Gujarat			135	2	0	1
	12		Haryana			388	1	0	0
	13		Himachal Pradesh			255	0	0	0
	14		Jammu And Kashmir			217	0	0	0
	15		Jharkhand			4	0	0	0
	16		Karnataka			584	3	0	2
	17		Kerala			186	0	0	0
	18		Ladakh			16	0	0	0
	19		Lakshadweep			0	0	0	0
	20		Madhya Pradesh			1138	9	2	2
	21		Maharashtra			1509	28	16	7
	22		Manipur			957	5	0	0
	23		Meghalaya			21	0	0	0
	24		Mizoram			0	0	0	0
	25		Nagaland			48	0	0	0
	26		Odisha			576	47	1	0
	27		Puducherry			20	0	0	0
	28		Punjab			195	0	2	1
	29		Rajasthan			533	4	0	0
	30		Sikkim			17	3	0	0
	31		Tamil Nadu			403	5	3	0
	32		Telangana			1191	0	2	0
33		Tripura			32		0	0	0
34		Uttarakhand			57		0	0	0
35		Uttar Pradesh			703		10	2	2
				Total	10851		127	36	15

Annexure-II

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART(d) OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 449 FOR ANSWER ON 30^THNOVEMBER, 2021 REGARDING PMFME

STATE-WISE NO. OF ONE DISTRICT ONE PRODUCT (ODOP)

	Sl. No		State/UT			No. of ODOPs
	1		Andaman And Nicobar Islands			3
	2		Andhra Pradesh			13
	3		Arunachal Pradesh			26
	4		Assam			33
	5		Bihar			38
	6		Chandigarh			1
	7		Chhattisgarh			28
	8		Dadra And Nagar Haveli And Daman And Diu			3
	9		Delhi			11
	10		Goa			2
	11		Gujarat			33
	12		Haryana			22
	13		Himachal Pradesh			12
	14		Jammu And Kashmir			20
	15		Jharkhand			24
	16		Karnataka			30
17		Kerala			14
18		Ladakh			2
19		Lakshadweep			1
20		Madhya Pradesh			52
21		Maharashtra			36
22		Manipur			16
23		Meghalaya			11
24		Mizoram			11
25		Nagaland			11
26		Odisha			30
27		Puducherry			2
28		Punjab			22
29		Rajasthan			33
30		Sikkim			4
31		Tamil Nadu			37
32		Telangana			33
33		Tripura			8
34		Uttarakhand			13
35		Uttar Pradesh			75
				Total	710

District-wise ODOP list is available at PMFME website: https://mofpi.nic.in/pmfme/

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