Union Minister for Food Processing Industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal is upset that not many people from Tamil Nadu have evinced interest in the mega food park project sanctioned by her ministry.
“Tamil Nadu is the biggest food processing market, after Andhra Pradesh, but has taken the least number of schemes. This State has a huge potential in the processing of fruits, vegetables, milk and poultry, and I encourage more people to avail themselves of such schemes,” she said on Thursday, on the sidelines of a national conclave on the Indian food processing sector, organised by the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce.
“Around 40 projects have been sanctioned under this scheme since 2008. I was surprised to see that not many came up in Tamil Nadu… We sent out invitations again and have got 84 applications. Of these, only six were from the Tamil Nadu region,” she said.