Ministry of Food Processing
Industries has so far approved 36 Food Parks for grant of financial
assistance in different States. Maximum five food parks have been
approved in Madhya Pradesh followed by four in Maharashtra. Jammu
& Kashmir, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh & West Bengal have been
granted approval for three food parks each, whereas Haryana, Karnataka
and Manipur will have two food parks each. One food park each
has been approved in the States of Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Chattisgarh,
Mizoram, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamilnadu & Tripura. In
several food parks, construction work is in progress. Ministry
has undertaken comprehensive review of the progress of food park
projects, and built in provision to ensure convergence of different
schemes on food parks. This was stated in Rajya Sabha today by
the Minister of State of the Food Processing Industries Shri N.T.
Shanmugam in a written reply to Shri Ramachandra Khuntia.
