{"id":24040,"date":"2017-03-30T08:30:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T08:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=24040"},"modified":"2017-03-30T08:30:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T08:30:03","slug":"101-new-cold-chain-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/101-new-cold-chain-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"101 new cold chain projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Who is the Food processing Minister?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Harsimrat Kaur Badal<br \/>\n(b) Smriti Irani<br \/>\n(c) Nirmala Sitaraman<br \/>\n(d) Nazma Heptullah<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (a)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On 27th March, 2017, Ministry of Food Processing Industries announced sanction of 101 new integrated Cold Chain Projects spread across the country.<\/li>\n<li>The decision has been taken with a view to reduce wastage of agricultural produce and add value to farmers\u2019 harvests ranging from fruits and vegetables to fish, dairy and marine products.<\/li>\n<li>The Ministry is focusing on creating Cold Chain infrastructure by strategic planning which eventually builds Cold Chain Grid in the entire country.<\/li>\n<li>The scheme of Cold Chain and Value Addition Infrastructure provides financial assistance up to Rs. 10 crore for entrepreneurs.<\/li>\n<li>These 101 new integrated cold chain projects will leverage total investment of Rs. 3100 crore for creation of modern infrastructure for the food processing sector. The total expected grant-in-aid to be released to these projects is Rs. 838 crore.<\/li>\n<li>The 101 new Cold chain Projects will create additional capacity of 2.76 lakh MT of Cold Storage\/Controlled Atmosphere\/Frozen Storage, 115 MT per hour of Individual Quick Freezing (IQF) capacity, 56 lakh litres per day of Milk Processing, 210 MT per batch of Blast Freezing and 629 Refrigerated\/Insulated vehicles.<\/li>\n<li>These Integrated Cold Chain projects will not only provide a big boost to the growth of food processing infrastructure in the concerned states but also help in providing better prices to farmers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=159970\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=159970<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.livemint.com\/Politics\/EmwoEpAzSFG6mYk6cLiHHJ\/Food-processing-ministry-approves-101-new-cold-chain-project.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.livemint.com\/Politics\/EmwoEpAzSFG6mYk6cLiHHJ\/Food-processing-ministry-approves-101-new-cold-chain-project.html<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Who is the Food processing Minister? (a) Harsimrat Kaur Badal (b) Smriti Irani (c) Nirmala Sitaraman (d) Nazma Heptullah Ans: (a) On 27th March, 2017, Ministry of Food Processing Industries announced sanction of 101 new integrated Cold Chain Projects spread across the country. The decision has been taken with a view to reduce wastage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1143],"tags":[2497],"class_list":["post-24040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pp","tag-planning-project-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}