Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Processing Industries, Government of India, Tariq Anwar launched “Investors’ Portal” for Food Processing Industry.
Investors’ portal intends to provide information, particularly to investors, about infrastructure facilities for setting up food processing units, availability of raw material, marketing infrastructure, sector specific State agencies, and fiscal incentives in a user friendly mode and helps them to make informed decisions.
Apart from dissemination of information, the web portal also offers online support to investors with regard to their queries and provides hand holding services in the initial stage of setting up their units.
The Investors’ Portal can be visited from the FPI Ministry website, mofpi.nic.in.
Tariq Anwar also released “Opportunities in Agri Business” which is a compilation of detailed profiles of different States. The profiles contain information on production base, availability of raw material, agri-marketing infrastructure, and potential for investment and States’ policies for development of food processing industries.