Minister urges FMCGs to buy from farmers

The Indian Government is focusing on creating mini food processing units across India, Minister of State for Food Processing Industries Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti said at an ASSOCHAM event held in New Delhi on 10 Oct 2017.

“There is a need to set up mini food processing units in large numbers as that would encourage farmers to produce high-quality farm output,” said Jyoti while inaugurating an ASSOCHAM Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) Summit 2017.

She also urged the food processing industry to buy raw material directly from farmers. It is the only means to double the farmers’ incomes besides and encourage them to come up with quality produce.

“If industry directly buys the farmers’ produce from them, it will get top-quality raw material for processing purposes at a cheaper rate which will also help the farmers in realising their actual cost,” said the Minister.

“When the farmers will get to know that their produce is going to be sold in such (food processing sector) markets, they will automatically work upon producing high quality farm output,” she added. fii-news.com