Mega Food Parks : How will it benefit the Indian Economy By Deepak Parvatiyar September 26, 2014 On 24th September this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a mega food park in Tumkur, Karnataka and said such facilities would spur farmers’ economic empowerment. “Better infrastructure and better facilities is the need of the hour,” Modi said and stressed on the need to sell Indian packed food in markets across the world. What are Mega Food Parks? Mega Food Parks scheme is considered to be an inclusive concept aimed at establishing “direct linkages from the farm to processing and on to the consumer markets”, through a vast network of collection centres and Primary Processing Centres. The purpose is to achieve a target of processing of perishables from the present six per cent to twenty per cent, and to increase the country’s share in global food trade to at least three per cent by 2015. You may also like to read Does India have the potential to be
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