The Food Processing Ministry will give priority to farmers, self-help groups and women for providing grant-in-aid in setting up food processing enterprises. It has also identified Bihar, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Jammu and Kashmir for preferential treatment in financial support to set up food processing units.

Announcing this here, Food Processing Minister Subodhkant Sahai said the Ministry was setting up three boards to promote processing of fisheries, soybean and guar gum...........Click for more

Source web page: The Hindu