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

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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 -

  1. 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.
  2. 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).
  3. 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) dated15thApril, 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 30THNOVEMBER, 2021 REGARDING PMFME

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

 

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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 30THNOVEMBER, 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/

Food Processing Lok sabha Prahlad Singh Patel