The Central government has approved 28 Food Processing Projects worth over 320 crore rupees.
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Key-Points
These projects supported with a grant of over 107 crore rupees by the Ministry of Food Processing Industries were approved under the Scheme for Creation and Expansion of Food Processing and Preservation Capacities- CEFPPC in the Inter-Ministerial Approval Committee (IMAC) meeting.
These projects spread over 10 states are likely to generate employment for nearly 10 thousand people.
These 28 projects will create a processing capacity of 1237 Metric Tonnes daily and are spread across the states of Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Jammu and Kashmir , Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Assam, and Manipur.
