English
क्षमा करें, यह समाचार आपके अनुरोध की भाषा में उपलब्ध नहीं है। कृपया यहाँ देखें।
The Chief Secretary, B V R Subrahmanyam attended a meeting of the Apex Level Approval Committee (ALAC) to check the rollout of the ‘One District-One Product’ component of the ‘Formalization of Micro Food Processing Enterprises’ (FME) scheme in Jammu & Kashmir. Administrative Secretaries of departments of Agriculture Production and Farmers Welfare, Horticulture, Animal Husbandry & Fisheries, Cooperatives, Forest, Ecology & Environment, besides HoDs of National Cooperative Development Corporation, National Skill Development Corporation, SRLM, SKUAST, Jammu/Kashmir took part in the meeting.
The meeting was held under the umbrella of Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan, the FME scheme through its targeted approach of ‘One District-One Product’, will give a framework for value chain development and alignment of support infrastructure by identifying a unique food product per district, with a aim on perishable items including agri-produce, cereal-based product, and a food product widely produced in a district.
The scheme’s motive is strengthening the backward and forward linkages to the micro food processing enterprises by giving them common facilities of incubation centres, training, R&D, and marketing & branding.
The Chief Secretary stressed on the concerned to develop a mechanism by which the provisions of the scheme are used well to complement the existing promotional efforts of the Government through Agriculture Crop Clusters, Agriculture Export Policy, and National Rurban Mission.
The department of Agriculture Production and Farmers Welfare was told to identify the district-wise priority agriculture produce for development under the Micro Food Processing Enterprise Scheme with a special focus on region-specific Basmati Rice, Saffron, Apple, Walnut, Maize, Organic Vegetables, Mushroom, Lavender, Trout, Rajmash among others.
