CM Jagan Mohan Reddy inaugurates six food processing units in Andhra Pradesh

ENA State 2023-07-26 14:45:00 Vijayawada, July 26 (KNN) Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy virtually inaugurated six food processing units and laid down the foundation stone for another five units with the budget of Rs 1,719 crore on Tuesday. As per reports, the CM also launched four primary vegetable and fruit processing centres in Annamayya and Chittoor districts, millet processing unit at L Kota in Vizianagaram district, onion and tomato dehydration cluster at Thadakanepalle in Kurnool district and laid foundation stones for three primary tomato processing centres in Satya Sai and Anantapur, groundnut processing unit at Dharmavaram in Satya Sai and Mondelez India Foods in Sri City. <a href="https://bit.ly/3B9mZSj"><img alt="FOLLOW US on GOOGLE NEWS" src="https://knnindia.co.in//uploads/gallery/GoogleNews.jpg" style="border-style:solid; border-width:1px; height:95px; margin:1px; width:299px" /></a> Speaking on the occasion, CM Reddy said, We are launching 421 primary processing collection centres mapped to 1,912 RBKs and 43 cold storage rooms linked to 194 RBKs. While cold storage rooms, drying platforms, collection centres, grading and segregation units should be linked to RBKs as part of primary processing, secondary processing units should be established at district level, Jagan stated. As per reports, 32 primary and 13 secondary processing units for millets will be coming up in the state very soon. Agriculture minister K Govardhana Reddy, Chief Secretary KS Jawahar Reddy, Special Chief Secretary (Agriculture) Gopalakrishna Dwivedi, Principal Secretary (Marketing and Cooperation) Chiranjeevi Choudary and representatives from food processing units were present (KNN Bureau) 34219 https://knnindia.co.in/news/newsdetails/state/cm-jagan-mohan-reddy-inaugurates-six-food-processing-units-in-andhra-pradesh 2023-07-26 14:45:00 knnindia.co.in CM Jagan Mohan Reddy inaugurates six food processing units in Andhra Pradesh