By Samachar Vishesh
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Chandigarh 08th Aug:- O P
Dhankar, Minister of Agriculture &
Farmers Welfare, Dairying and Animal Husbandry, Government of Haryana,
emphasized on the potential of Haryana to become a peri-urban agri and dairy
hub in the region. Shri Dhankar was speaking at the CII Northern Region
Conference on Food Processing and Dairy at New Delhi today.
Having proximity to Delhi-NCR,
Government of Haryana sees great potential to provide direct selling platform
to farmers with an aim for zero-wastage with its recently launched ‘Haryana
Fresh’ initiative, emphasized Shri Dhankar. He mentioned the importance to
balance quality with branding and marketability when it comes to food and dairy
industry.
Rajni
Sekhhri Sibal, Secretary, Department of Fisheries,
Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying, Government of India,
elaborated on the opportunities that lies in the fisheries sector. She asaid
that having exported 47,620 crores worth fish in FY2017-18, India’s fisheries
sector has been accounting for a 7 per cent year-on-year growth rate. In order
to increase our exports, Ms Sibal invited industry in mariculture and sea-weed
production with emphasis on technological integration into the process.
Jasmohan
Singh, Chairman, CII Northern Region, Agriculture and Food Processing
Committee and Managing Director, Frick India Ltd.said that food Processing
plays an integral role in linking farmers to consumers. He stressed that food
processing industry value adds to the agri and allied sector.
Gokul
Patnaik, Chairman, Global AgriSystems Pvt.
Ltd. mentioned that North India is a repository of food supply to the rest of
the country. He emphasized that Food Processing is the engine that drives
agriculture growth and highlighted on the importance of contract farming to
solve backward linkage issues and steady investments by private players to
resolve logistical issues. He further suggested to decrease GST rate on primary
agriculture produce to 0 per cent and 5 per cent for processed food so as to make
healthy food consumption a reality across all sections of the society.
A CII report titled “Food Processing & Dairy Industry:
Challenges, Solutions and Sustainability” was also released during
the conference. The conference was attended by over 130 delegates from the agri
and allied industry.
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