Baba Ramdev's Patanjali to invest Rs 500 cr in Bundelkhand food park

Firm is currently focusing on land acquisition, says project to be up and running by 2020

Yoga guru Baba Ramdev promoted Patanjali Group is planning to invest about Rs 500 crore in its proposed food park in Jhansi district of Bundelkhand.
 
Patanjali Group, which is primarily engaged in manufacturing and marketing of organic food and consumer goods, is currently working towards acquiring land for the project.
 
“We are concentrating on land acquisition in Jhansi district, which is the main town in Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh,” Patanjali Food & Herbal Park CEO Ravindra Kumar Chaudhary told Business Standard in Lucknow.
 
He informed the project would require 50-100 acres to set up the food