Ministry of Food Processing Industries (India)

Lack of common VAT rates hits food processing industry

Centre ready to provide grants for backward integration projects, modernisation. Shashi Ashiwal Mr Subodh Kant Sahai, Union Minister for Food Processing Industries, and Mr Ness Wadia, Chairman, FICCI Maharashtra State Council,...

Centre plans to set up 50 food parks

THANJAVUR: Fifty food parks will be established in the country during the 11th Plan Period, Ashok Sinha, Secretary, Union Ministry of Food Processing Industries, said on Monday. He told presspersons here that 10 would be...

‘We are set to emerge as a major logistics service provider’

The Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC) was launched as a central public sector undertaking more than half a century ago. Unlike many PSUs, it has always been a profit-making organisation, consistently paying dividends to its

Food parks yet to operational

By VINODHINI NEW DELHI Nov. 3: Out of the 45 food parks planned by the Centre in 2004, none of them are fully operational today. The Centre originally planned these parks with private investment to increase the infrastructure...