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Conservation and processing of agricultural produce under PMKSY

19 July 2022, New Delhi: A total of 17 projects for food processing have been approved by the Ministry of Food Processing Industries under various sub-schemes of Pradhan Mantri Kisan Smpada Yojana (PMKSY) in 2021-22 having processing capacity of 3.6428 Lakh MT/annum and preservation capacity of 2.2149 Lakh MT/annum.

(b):     The details of 17 projects are as under:

SNSchemeNumber of Approved Projects
1Agro Processing Clusters (APC)7
2Creation/Expansion of Food Processing/Preservation Capacity (CEFPPC)3
3Integrated Cold Chain & Value Addition Infrastructure (ICC)5
4Mega Food Parks (MFP)2
 Total17
Conservation and processing of agricultural produce under PMKSY

(c):       The 17 projects sanctioned in 2021-22 have employment capacity of 11,137.

This information was given by Minister of State for M/o Food Processing Industries, Shri Prahlad Singh Patel in a written reply in Lok Sabha today

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