The Hindu Business Line : CII meet on food processing industry

Kochi, Oct. 2 To highlight the recent changes/developments in the Agricultural, Food Processing and Exports Sector, the CII has organised an interactive session with Mr K. Jayakumar, Additional Chief Secretary & Agriculture Production Commissioner of the State Government.

The session also provided a forum for the industry to have a direct interaction with the Agriculture Production Commissioner on company specific procedural issues and also to raise issues which are of concern to industry.

Farmer friendly

Mr Jayakumar spoke about the importance of branding the food processing industry as farmer friendly. Ensuring a fair and transparent mechanism for sharing benefits of high value agriculture to the farmers should be the aim.

The Government is ready financially to take up any projects like entrepreneur and skill development programmes with organisations like CII. The Government would also like to be involved in technology transfers through standardised means. He wanted to set the current decade for the food processing industry to be showcased as the sunrise industry for the next 5 years.

Mr Shivdas B Menon, Past Chairman, CII and Convenor, Agriculture, Food Processing & Export Panel apprised the Agriculture Production Commissioner about the need for a Single Window Scheme for Agriculture; also the importance of regular interactions between government, agriculture institutes and industry.

Mr M. S. A. Kumar, Chairman, CII Kerala State Council also spoke about the need for inclusive growth and generating profitable employment opportunities in agriculture.

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