Minister of Food Processing Chieg Paswan | Photo credit: PTI
The Government said on Friday that several schemes to promote food processing have helped reduce subsequent losses to harvest in fruits and vegetables in the last five years, while emphasizing the need to further develop the sector to boost the demand for income from farmers.
The Minister of Food Processing Industries, Chiag Paswan, who speaks at the SUFALAM event organized by Niftem Sciences in Haryana, said that the food processing sector has a crucial role to achieve India’s goal of becoming a nation developed by 2047.
“Until now, we do not have able to take advantage of the legs and explore the sector completely. In terms of exports and processing, we are not today, although there is an endless scope to develop more,” said Paswan.
The minister added that India could arise as a “global food basket” given the enormous potential of the sector.
The government is working to establish an ecosystem to boost food processing through varied schemes and by encouraging new companies, he thought Paswan said that “it is not yet enough since the potential is enormous.” The Secretary of Food Processing Industries, Subrata GUPTA, said that the Ministry was “continuing with projects” to support the creation of cold chains and other food processing infrastructures to reduce food waste.
“In fact, in the last five years, it has a decrease in the leg or food washing, because or lack or processing,” he said.
Gupta highlighted the challenge of feeding a growing world population, which is expected to increase at 2 billion of the current 8 billion. He pointed out that 77 percent of the agricultural land is used to grow food for animals, that only 18 percent of calories and 37 percent of the protein consumed by humans.
The secretary emphasized the need for alternative protein sources, mentioning that NIFTEM has sponsored research in border processing areas, including cultured meat and plants meat technologies.
Posted on April 25, 2025