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Kerala’s first and India’s 20^th mega food park inaugurated in Palakkad district of Kerala
KINFRA Mega Food Park
The Mega Park will have around 30 units of food processing with an investment of Rs 250 crore.
Kinfra = Kerala Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation

The Mega Food Park scheme

Ministry of Food Processing Industries Since 2008.
Mega Food Park Scheme aims at providing a mechanism to link agricultural production to the market by bringing together farmers, processors and retailers.
These food parks give a major boost to the food processing sector by adding value and reducing food wastage at each stage of the supply chain with particular focus on perishables.
The Scheme has a cluster based approach based on a hub and spokes model.

Centralized Processing Center (CPC)
Primary Processing Centers (PPCs)
Collection Centers (CCs)
Ready-to-use plots
Standard Design Factories (SDF)
Basic infrastructure such as roads, power, water, drainage
Core facilities or core processing infrastructure include Cold Storage, Ripening Chamber, Raw Material Warehouse, Finished Product Warehouse, Silos, Pack House, Quality Control Laboratory etc.

Benefits

Farmers will get better prices of their agriproducts and their income will also increase.
MFP will provide processing opportunities to farmers, self-help groups, and micro-entrepreneurs and create more employment opportunities in the surrounding areas.

1.Srini Mega Food Park, Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh.
2. Godavari Mega Aqua Park, West Godavari, Andhra Pradesh.
3. North East Mega Food Park, Nalbari, Assam.
4. Gujarat Agro Mega Food Park, Surat, Gujarat.
5. Cremica mega Food park, Una, Himachal Pradesh.
6. Integrated Mega Food Park, Tumkur, Karnataka.
7. Kerala Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (KINFRA) Mega Food Park, Palakkad, Kerala.
8. Indus Mega Food Park, Khargoan, Madhya Pradesh.
9. Avantee Mega Food Park, Dewas, Madhya Pradesh.
10. Paithan Mega Food Park, Aurangabad, Maharashtra.

11.Satara Mega Food Park, Satara, Maharashtra.
12. Zoram Mega Food Park, Kolasib, Mizoram.
13. MITS Mega Food Park, Rayagada, Odisha.
14. International Mega Food Park, Fazilka, Punjab.
15. Greentech Mega Food park, Ajmer, Rajasthan.
16. Smart Agro Mega Food Park, Nizamabad, Telangana.
17. Tripura Mega Food Park, West Tripura, Tripura.
18. Patanjali Food and Herbal Park, Haridwar, Uttarakhand.
19. Himalayan Mega Food Park, Udham Singh Nagar, Uttarakhand.
20. Jangipur Bengal Mega Food Park, Murshidabad, West Bengal.

KINFRA MFP Kerala

42 acres of land + Project cost of Rs 102.13 crore.

The first Mega Park in Kerala is expected to generate business of close to Rs 500 crore per annum.
It will leverage an additional investment of about Rs250 crore in 25-30 food processing units in the park.
The park will also provide direct and indirect employment to 5,000 persons
It will benefit about 25,000 farmers in the CPC and PPC catchment areas
The government sees food processing as one of the major sectors of ‘AatmaNirbhar Bharat” initiative.
PM Formalisation of Micro Food Processing Enterprises Scheme (PMFME).