Ministry/Department : Ministry of Food Processing
Aims to integrate current and new schemes aimed at reducing food wastage and doubling farmers’ income by 2022
Scheme:
- SAMPADA is an umbrella scheme that will include ongoing schemes like mega food parks and cold chain projects and new schemes.
- It has an outlay of Rs. 6000 crore and will be implemented by 2019-20.
- The ministry will also launch three new schemes to create infrastructure for improving the entire food supply chain.
- These three schemes are
- ‘Creation/ Expansion of Food Processing and Preservation Capacities’,
- ‘New Agro-Processing Clusters‘ and
- ‘Backward and Forward Linkages’.
- Moreover, government is taking steps to boost food processing sector to bring down post-harvest losses preferably to zero level, provide quality food to consumers at cheaper price and double of farmers’ income.