Badal lays foundation stone of 2nd Mega Food Park in Bihar

Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kuar Badal today laid the foundation stone of the second Mega Food Park in Bihar to be built at an estimated cost of Rs 117.2 crore, which is expected to benefit 30,000 farmers and generate around 6,000 direct and indirect jobs in the state.
The Centre has sanctioned as many as three Mega Food Parks in Bihar. The work on the first Mega Food Park, which is being built in Khagaria, has already started. The third park of the state will come up at Buxar.
The food park will have strong backward linkage and three primary processing centres. Two centres will be built in Rohtas and Muzaffarpur in Bihar and the third one in Varanasi of Uttar Pradesh, Badal added.

On completion, the park will have facilities of 2,000 tonnes of raw material warehouse, 15,000 tonnes of grain silos, 2,000 tonnes of finished goods warehouse, 500 tonnes deep fridge besides having modern testing lab and reefer vans.
"Bihar is rich in fruits and vegetables and there is a huge potential to drive the "Make in India" initiative of Honourable Prime Minister and export to the rest of the world," Badal said.
The park will be set up with the project cost of Rs 117.2 crore in an area of 85 acres. It will provide direct and indirect employment to about 6,000 people and benefit about 30,000 farmers in its catchment area, she said.

The minister also informed that her ministry is facilitating creation of modern infrastructure for food processing along the value chain from the farm to the market with strong forward and backward linkages through a cluster based approach.
The function was attended by MoS Food Processing Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti and MoS HRD Upendra Kushwaha.