Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (HSIIDC) is developing another Mega Food Park at Barhi in district Sonepat, which is located on Delhi-Ambala national highway.
The centre is also contributing in this project in shape of grant.
Two fully developed Food Parks are operational in Haryana - Rai in Sonipat district and another at Saha in Ambala district.
Stating this here today, HSIIDC Managing Director Vineet Garg said that food processing industry is a sunrise industry in today's scenario.
"The potential for this sector has grown enormously. A lot of opportunities exist in National and International Market for processed food products. Therefore, this initiative of HSIIDC will be having a long bearing effect on India's food processing industry," he said.
He said that the State, being strategically located covering the national capital from three sides, offers ideal location for Food Park.
"This will benefit not only Haryana but also the neighboring States of Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab and Western Uttar Pradesh as these State produces a lot of fruits and vegetables and Haryana is the only the Gateway for transporting these product to various national and international markets. That is why Haryana is also called the Gateway of North India," he said.
He said that food processing technologies can be very useful as a huge quantity of fruits and vegetables go waste every year because of short availability of processing and storage facilities.
Due to this initiative of HSIIDC, new food processing units / industry will come up at a strategic location which would be able to handle food and food product for processing and storage thus mitigating the national wastage of food and food product, he said.
"It would also further increase the employment opportunities in the region," he said.
The Mega Food Park Project of HSIIDC has been approved in Principle for Central Government Grant of Rs 50 crore.
Mega Food Park is being developed with an investment of Rs 177 crore.
"Once implemented, there will be about 100 manufacturing units in the area and these industries put together will be giving employment to about 10,000 people directly and indirectly," he said.
HSIIDC is developing this Mega Food Park in 75 acres in Industrial Estate, Barhi which is located at NH-I.
A provision has been made to allot about 100 plots to Food Processing Units in this area.
