{"id":48556,"date":"2012-12-07T11:04:06","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T16:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manipur-mail.com\/?p=13841"},"modified":"2012-12-07T11:04:06","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T16:04:06","slug":"steps-taken-by-the-centre-to-promote-food-processing-industries-in-the-north-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2012\/12\/07\/steps-taken-by-the-centre-to-promote-food-processing-industries-in-the-north-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Steps Taken by the Centre to Promote Food Processing Industries in the North East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Food Processing Industries in coordination with Small Farmers` Agri-Business Consortium (SFAC) under Ministry of Agriculture is implementing Mini Mission-IV under Horticulture Mission for North-East &amp; Himalayan States. Under the Mini Mission-IV component of this scheme, assistance at higher rates i.e. @ 50% upto Rs. 4 crore for setting up of new food processing units and upto Rs. 1 crore for Upgradation\/modernization of existing units is available to industries involved in processing of horticultural produce in the above States. Further, this scheme is operational during 2012-13 also. Funds under the scheme are disbursed through SFAC to the beneficiaries.<\/p>\n<p>Small Farmers` Agri-Business Consortium (SFAC) provides soft loan under Venture Capital Assistance Scheme in the country including North-Eastern Region. Under this scheme, venture capital for agri-projects upto 10% of the total project cost or 26% of the total project equity or Rs. 75 lakhs, whichever is lower is provided.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme \u2013 National Mission on Food Processing (NMFP), the Ministry of Food Processing Industries extends financial assistance to food processing units including fruits &amp; vegetables units in the form of grants-in-aid to the implementing agencies \/ entrepreneurs @25% of the cost of plant and machinery and technical civil works subject to a maximum of Rs. 50.00 lakhs in general areas, or @33.33% subject to maximum of Rs. 75.00 lakhs in difficult areas such as Jammu &amp; Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim and North-Eastern States, A&amp;N Islands, Lakshadweep and ITDP areas in the country. The same pattern of assistance is available under NMFP through States \/ UT Governments.<\/p>\n<p>This information was given by Dr. Charan Das Mahanta, Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Processing Industries in written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/manipur-mail.com\/steps-taken-by-the-centre-to-promote-food-processing-industries-in-the-north-east\/\">http:\/\/manipur-mail.com\/steps-taken-by-the-centre-to-promote-food-processing-industries-in-the-north-east\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Food Processing Industries in coordination with Small Farmers` Agri-Business Consortium (SFAC) under Ministry of Agriculture is implementing Mini Mission-IV under Horticulture Mission for North-East &#038; Himalayan States. Under the Mini Mission-IV component of this scheme, assistance at higher rates i.e. @ 50% upto Rs. 4 crore for setting up of new food [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[985,4],"tags":[986,990],"class_list":["post-48556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manipur-mail","category-news","tag-manipur-mail-2","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}