In order to promote and ensure overall development of Food Processing Industries, Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) has been incentivizing setting up/expansion of related infrastructure through its Central Sector schemes namely Pradhan Mantri Kisan SAMPADA Yojana (PMKSY) Scheme, Production Linked Incentive Scheme for Food Processing Industry (PLISFPI) and Centrally Sponsored – Pradhan Mantri Formalization of Micro Food Processing Enterprises (PMFME) Scheme across the country.

Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs), Self-Help Groups (SHGs) and cooperatives are also eligible for availing grants under these schemes of MoFPI.

So far, MoFPI has approved 166 proposals of Farmer Producer Organisations, 1228 that of Self-Help Groups and 61 that of cooperatives under the schemes implemented by MoFPI.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Food Processing Industries Shri Ravneet Singh in a written reply in Lok Sabha today.

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(Release ID: 2148511)