Question : One District, One Product Approach in FPIs

(a) whether the Government has approved One District One Product approach in Food Processing Industries (FPIs) and in each district of the country under Khadya Prasanskaran Udyog Unnayan Yojana;

(b) if so, the details thereof along with the names of the districts selected in Maharashtra for the said purpose;

(c) the steps taken by the Government in these selected districts of Maharashtra to implement the said yojana fully;

(d) whether Parbhani and Usmanabad districts of Maharashtra have been included therein and if so, the details thereof along with the products selected and if not, the reasons therefor;

(e) the names of the districts likely to be included therein in future particularly from Maharashtra; and

(f) the details of the criteria fixed to include food processing sector under the said yojana?

THE MINISTER OF FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES
(SHRI PASHUPATI KUMAR PARAS)


(a) to (f): A statement is laid on the Table of the House.



STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) TO (f) OF LOK SABHA
STARRED QUESTION NO. *367 FOR ANSWER ON 29TH MARCH, 2022 REGARDING
“ONE DISTRICT, ONE PRODUCT APPROACH IN FPIS”.

(a) to (f): Yes, Sir. The Scheme envisages support to individual micro food processing enterprises/ Self Help Groups (SHGs)/ Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs)/ Producer Cooperatives. Presently, the enterprise with an investment in Plant and Machinery or Equipment, not more than Rs.1 crore and Annual Turnover not more than Rs. 5 crore are classified as micro enterprises.

One District One Product (ODOP) approach is to provide the framework for value chain development and alignment of support infrastructure. Ministry has approved ODOP for 710 districts in 35 States/ UTs. ODOP has been identified for all 36 districts of Maharashtra. The list of ODOP for the State of Maharashtra is attached at Annexure. ODOP for Parbhani and Osmanabad are Sugarcane based Products (Jaggery) and Pulse based Products (Gram, Moong, Tur- Dal, Flour etc.) respectively.

The following steps have been taken by the government to implement the PMFME Scheme in Maharashtra including selected ODOP districts:

(i). State Nodal Agencies (SNAs), State Level Approval Committees (SLACs) and District Level Committees (DLCs) have been constituted.

(ii). One District One Product (ODOP) for 36 Districts have been approved in State.

(iii). Seed Capital amounting to Rs. 14.20 crore released for 3958 Self Help Group (SHG) Members.

(iv). 3 Incubation Centers have been approved with an outlay of Rs. 7.27 crore.

(v). For capacity building, one State Level Technical Institutes (SLTIs) namely Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), Baramati has been nominated.

(vi). 25 Master Trainers and 22 District Level Trainers have been trained. 540 District Resource Persons (DRPs) for 36 Districts have been appointed to provide handholding support to beneficiaries.

(vii). Loan sanctioned to 405 beneficiaries


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