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Food Parks are comprehensive industrial estates for
food-processing units where the industries would have the
provision of common facilities like cold storage, cold chain,
effluent treatment plant, ware housing, power connection, water
facilities, sewerage etc. The creation of these common
infrastructures would benefit the individual units particularly
the small and medium scale units, because these are expensive to
be set up by any single individual unit. Therefore a common park
with all the infrastructures would help in the growth of this
industry.
The main objective of setting up the Food Park is to attract
several units in the Food Processing industry into a common area
under the industry cluster concept so as to ensure low operating
cost, more flexibility of operations of the units in the park
and reduce post-harvest losses. This would also help to
establish better linkages between farmers and processors, which
would finally result in better realization to the farmers as
well as lower cost to the consumers.
The Department of Food Processing Industries and Horticulture is
encouraging and facilitating private sector, joint venture, and
PSU initiatives for establishing Food Parks at different places
of the state in order to provide common facilities to the
entrepreneurs for setting up food processing units.
Some
of the Food Parks, in the state at different stages of
implementation:
|
Name of Food Parks & the Implementing Agency |
Status |
No.
of Units |
Item of Processing |
Investment (Rs.) |
|
Food
Park at Malda -implemented by Department of Food Processing
Industries & Horticulture |
•
Malda district has been chosen as an ideal district for
creation of Food Park because of its rich agro and
horticulture produces. The Food Park is being set up
at English Bazar of Malda district on 32.2 acres of land.
• Feasibility study for the Food Park is complete.
• The
Park has already received Rs. 3.87 crore of grant from Govt.
of India and Rs.5.72 crore from NABARD. |
25 |
Mango,
Lychee, Vegetables, Cereal, Milk, Dal, Spices etc. |
16
crores in two phases |
|
Food
Park at Murshidabad - implemented by Pataka Industries Pvt.
Ltd. |
•
Total area of land is 50 acres, which has been procured.
•
Further work is in progress.
• The
proposal has been recommended to MFPI, GOI for obtaining
sanction of grant. |
60 |
Mango,
Lychee, Vegetables, Cereals, Milk, Spices, Poultry etc |
15.19
crores |
|
Food
Park at Durgapur Implemented by Asansol-Durgapur
Development Authority (ADDA) |
• It
is being developed by ADDA.
•
Total land area is 27.81 acres. |
30 |
Cereal, Rice Bran, Dairy, Poultry, Potato, Milk, Snacks etc. |
12.13
crores |
|
Food
Park at Siliguri |
•
Total land area is 30 acres. Land acquisition is in
progress.
• The
proposal has been recommended to MFPI, G.O.I for obtaining
grant. |
20 |
Processed pineapple, passion fruit, orange and other food
products. |
14.23
crores in two phases |
|
Food
Park at Shankarpur Fishing Harbour in Purba Midnapore for
fish Processing |
• It
is being developed by West Bengal Fisheries Corporation Ltd.
• MFPI,
Govt. of India has sanctioned Rs.1.00 crore for this
project. |
6 |
Processed Fish products
|
8.01
crores |
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Pre-processing complex and Food Park at Sultanpur, South
24-Parganas |
• It
is being developed by BENFISH.
• MFPI,
GOI has sanctioned Rs. 2.028 crores for this project. |
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Processed Fish |
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