Animal Husbandry Dept signs MoU with Food Processing Ministry

Subject – Agriculture

Context – Animal Husbandry Dept signs MoU with Food Processing Ministry

Concept –

The Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Food Processing Industries for extending the benefits of various schemes to the beneficiaries by providing them credit support in establishing dairy processing, meat processing and animal feed plant.
Ministry Of Food Processing Industries has been implementing schemes such as One District One Product (ODOP), while the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying runs the credit link grant assistance scheme to dairy, fisheries, poultry and animal feed units.

One District One Product (ODOP) of Ministry of Food Processing Industries

The scheme adopts the One District One Product (ODOP) approach to reap the benefit of scale in terms of procurement of inputs, availing common services and marketing of products.
The States would identify the food product for a district, keeping in perspective the focus of the scheme on perishables.
The ODOP product could be a perishable Agri produce, cereal-based product, or a food product widely produced in a district and their allied sectors.
Support for agricultural products would be for their processing along with efforts to reduce wastage, proper assaying, and storage and marketing.
The Department of Commerce is focusing on agriculture crops on a cluster approach for support for exports under the Agriculture Export Policy.
- Ministry of Agriculture is also focusing on a cluster approach for the development of specific agriproducts in districts having a comparative advantage.

For ODOP of different states, please refer the link –ODOP.